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AlphaControls is a collection of standard and original skinned controls with new properties added in order to enhanced program interface and add behaviors to common controls and with some new technologies using.

• Over 80 skinable controls and invisible components
• All elements of controls are drawn with alpha-channel using (control may be alpha-blended, can have realistic borders, shadows or other fine and unique effects)
• Flicker free
• Graphics functions are rendered in real-time, so, effects are always sharp with color scheme used and also moving and resizing in run-time of each control is supported
• TsHintManager make hints to be displayed alpha-blended, with HTML-formatting and you can choose from many ways to display
• Added caption properties for position and rendering
• Mouse event added provide great possiblities
• Skinned forms and menus. Full SDI & MDI forms support
• Easiest and powerful skin-engine supports of internal and external skins, one type of control can have some kinds in skin. All drawings (patterns except) supports alpha-masks
• Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component)
• Possibility of components using without skins. Standard kind of controls is supported (XP themes using is possible)
• Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library
• Designing in design-time in IDE
• Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing. Freeware skin editing tool is available.
• Animation effects in some controls and forms
• Skinned windows shell controls
• Full standard windows help file describing all properties, events and methods of the component and related objects
• Possibility of the skins embedding in the single Exe-file by few mouse clicks
• And so on…

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MsgCommunicator is a native Delphi / C++Builder software development kit (SDK) which was specially designed for the easy creation of custom internet/intranet messenger systems like Mirabilis ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Jabber, etc. with data compression and strong encryption as well as with other advanced networking technologies.

MsgCommunicator includes methods, properties and events to exchange custom messages of different types like String, Stream and binary buffer with data compression and encryption capabilities.

But MsgCommunicator is not just the build-in OS API messages functions replacement with advanced compression, encryption, and network functionality; it provides methods and properties to work with other objects like User’s Contact List, User Info, Users database at server, as well as User Goes On-line / Off-Line events and other functionality you need to build a messenger.

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FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating systems, including Windows.

Because FFVCL is a direct wrapper of FFmpeg’s libavcodec APIs, it is able to reflect the power of FFmpeg library. And it is more flexible and more powerful than the official FFmpeg command line tool. At the same time, FFVCL is very easy to use. Therefore, FFVCL is better than FFmpeg tool in some measure.

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VisioForge Media Player SDK allows programmers to easily integrate video, audio and DVD playback into their software applications. It also allows you to draw overlay bitmap and text over the video with effects.

• Supported file formats
  • video formats - AVI, MPEG-1/2, WMV, 3GP, QuickTime MOV, MPEG-4/H264 (AVC), any other if you have corresponding decoder
  • audio formats - WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, any other if you have corresponding decoder
  • DVD
• Video processing and effects
  • image and graphic overlays
  • text overlay
  • video transparency
  • brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, etc.
  • inverted colors
  • greyscale
  • more than 30 other effects
• Frame capture to TBitmap/HBITMAP in Delphi/ActiveX, BMP/JPEG/GIF/PNG files
• OSD (On-Screen Display)
• Audio streams from additional audio/video files
• Subtitles support

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NextGrid is powerfully native Delphi and C++ Builder component.

Main Features:

• Attractive and modern user interface (native OS styles supported)
• Easy to use columns editor in design time
• Easy to use properties and methods in run-time
• 2 Grid Styles (Report and Slides)
• Compact size (small footprint in final application)
• 19 column types (more is planned)
• 5 header styles
• 15 inplace and standalone editors
• Indicator, footer, input line included
• Written from scratch without inheriting limited StringGrid or ListView
• Unicode and RTL support
• And much more…

Recent added Features:

• Row best-fit
• New Memo column type
• SlidesEditor for design-time and run-time Slides design
• FixedCols property
• New TreeColumn.
• Vista HeadersStyle
• Row Moving in run-time
• New Calc Column
• Run time Columns Customization

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You can use HTMLEdit to quickly add HTML editing to your application with little knowledge of HTML on your part and no knowledge of HTML on the part of your application’s users.

The component is being used in content management applications, in website maintenance tools and in e-mail clients. It is designed around the needs of developers of content management applications that deal with textual content and images, it is however not intended as a replacement for applications such as DreamWeaver for layouting entire websites.

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Localizing software for different international markets can double and even quadruple sales. This is why almost every software company considers localization a must. Yet, localization is both a complicated and expensive process. Luckily for Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix developers, there is TsiLang Component Suite - the complete automatic localization solution.

TsiLang Components Suite allows you to build your multilingual applications in two minutes. It makes the process of building multilanguage applications so easy as writing “Hello World.” application. There are no limitations for amount of languages. You can build bilingual or multilingual applications as you decide.

Using TsiLang Components Suite you will be able to provide your user with ability to translate and adjust languages for your applications even without your assistance.

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Smoothly animated menu.

Features:

• Animated menu with hover menu hint text per menuitem
• Can be transparent or have sophisticated gradient, texture or hatch fills
• Built-in color settings for Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles
• Optional animation when switching or hovering menu items and showing hint text & image per menu item
• Built-in support for using BMP, JPEG, GIF and PNG images with alpha transparency
• Anti-aliased drawing
• TMS TAdvFormStyler compatible for instant switch between Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles.

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Office 2007 style smoothly animated calendar with sophisticated opacity & fill support.

Features:

• Calendar with sophisticated opacity and fill
• Includes month selector, year selector views
• Single date select or date range selection
• Support for background images, texture fill, gradients, hatch
• Built-in color settings for Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles
• Optional animation between next/prev month, month selector, year selector
• Optional ISO calculated week number indication
• Optional Today indication and “goto today” footer
• Optional shadow
• Anti aliasing support
• TMS TAdvFormStyler compatible for instant switch between Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles.

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One package providing all grid components of TMS software.

Includes:

• TAdvStringGrid: highly supercharged string grid;
• TAdvColumnGrid: string grid with flexible column oriented property management;
• TAdvSpreadGrid: formula - aware spreadsheet version of TAdvStringGrid;
• TDBAdvGrid: DB-aware version of TAdvStringGrid;
• TAdvPreviewDialog: print preview dialog;
• TAdvGridPrintSettings: dialog for setting the various grid’s print options;
• TAdvGridHTMLSettings: dialog for setting the various grid’s HTML export features;
• TAdvGridFindDialog: dialog wrapping all grid’s find functionality;
• TAdvGridWorkbook: multisheet grid interface;
• TAdvGridExcelIO: native XLS read/write interface for grids;
• TAdvGridRTFIO: native RTF export;
• TAdvGridCSVPager: component for handling paged CSV file viewing / editing;
• ESBMathsLib for TAdvSpreadGrid and multi grid formula awareness;
• TChartLink: Synchronize TChart’s with grid’s data in a codeless way.

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