Faves ActiveX Controls


GradDialog and TellTail ActiveX Controls are "invisible at runtime" controls with design-time IDE support. Add to your Toolbox in Visual Studio or any Programmer's IDE that supports ActiveX and drop on a form for design-time property access.


Programming Languages I've used them with include:

Visual Basic
Visual C++
Visual C#
Delphi

(The .ocx and instructions are included in the respective help zip files)

The controls are free for programmer's to use at their own risk.
Of course donations are welcome.

GradDialog ActiveX Control

The GradDialog ActiveX Control dynamically creates modal dialogs
with either Gradient or "Color Averaging" background styles. It
comes with "canned" methods for the Windows dialogs: Error,
Information, Confirmation, Warning, and Custom. The more
interesting method is Execute, which provides all of the above
types with programmer-selectable color combinations.

Download GradDlg Control and Help File

Screen Shots

Confirm Dialog Shot

Execute Info Shot

Info Dialog Shot

Error Dialog Shot

Test App Dialog Shot

GradDlg ActiveX Control on Core Download FREE Downloads, Discount Software, Freeware, Games, Submissions & More

TellTail ActiveX Control

How many times have you wanted to limit your application to a
single instance, and pass on the command tail when a user
launches a second copy of your program? With this control
all that coding is eliminated. Drop the control on your application's
main form at design-time and set two properties. All the Windows
System Calls and Shared Memory handling are performed by the
control with no programmer intervention required.

All transfer of data is handled by the control. The second instance
of your application saves command line info to shared memory and
terminates. The primary instance of your application tests for data
transfer by calling the CopyData() method of the control.

The available data includes: path of secondary program instance,
its command tail, and working directory. Also has methods GetParamCount()
and GetParamStr() that emulate the Delphi ParamCount() and ParamStr() functions.
Optionally, an additional string may be transfered using an event handler or via the
UserString property directly.


Download TellTail Control and Help File

TellTail ActiveX Control on Core Download FREE Downloads, Discount Software, Freeware, Games, Submissions & More


IniFileLib COM Library

Dual-Interface COM wrapper for Delphi 5 TIniFile component. Use TIniFile component from any programming language that understands Type Libraries.. including Win32 Python, Visual Basic, VC++, AutoIt3 etc..

Download IniFileLib and Help file