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

(Either Faves Free or Full Featured acts as installer for both controls.)


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.

Screen Shots

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. Optional programmer-defined
data may be transfered using an event handler.

The Full Featured version of Faves uses this control to prevent
multiple instances in the System Tray and to pass the name of
a double-clicked .fav file onto the primary instance so the .fav
file may be loaded "automatically."