Studio Controls COM  -  What's NEW...

Studio Controls COM v7.0

• New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX multi-state check box Selection control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX analog and digital instrument dial control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX alpha-numeric digital dashboard control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Outlook style navigation menu control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Tabbed File Folder Container control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Group Box control

• New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Content and Data Navigation control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Outlook style, Windows navigation UI / UX control

•  New, enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Paged Tab Data presentation control

Studio Controls COM v6.0

• Enhancements and upgrades for ctxCalendar v4.0 include:  Appointment Information Line, Enhanced Gesture Handling, Appointment Resize Enhancements, Appointment Edit Window Fill, Appointment Border Enhancements, Appointment Image Management;  Appointment Edit Windows focus, Enhanced how the control hides the edit window when focus is lost so that the appointment remains selected;  Adjusted when the resize handles are stored in the internal hittest array, to enforce their Z-Order priority over other appointments;  Adjusted the painting routines so that any selected appointment (read only or not) in any view is displayed using the thicker selected border

• Enhanced graphics features for Needle, Path and Pin primary elements Internal Image List Enhanced to manage up to 250 Images

• New ActiveX HTML Browser Control - Browse Sites on the Worldwide Web, as well, folders on a local file system

• New Image List Control - Internal Image List management for up to 250 images and/or 250 Image Paths

• Internal Image List Enhanced to mange up to 250 Images;  New Button Count; count all top level items in the control;  New Item Count; Count of all items in the control;  Set Tooltip for items disabled in the control

Studio Controls COM v5.0

• NEW Functionality:  Appointment Index;  User Drawn Date Header Text;  User Drawn Cell Text;  Cell Font;  Day View - Selected Start / End Time, Selected Column;  Day View Printing Enhanced;  Location Item Index Values - Appointment, Contact, Location and Task;  Enhanced Appointment Item Detail for Day, Month and Week Views; 

• NEW:  Enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Windows Color Pallet Selection Control

• NEW Functionality:  Hit Test Methods for Area At and Date At

• NEW Functionality: Close / Hide Drop Calendar when Fill Date is Selected (CloseOnFillClick Property);  Automatic Date Selection when Drop Calendar is Navigated (SelectOnChange Property)

• NEW:  Enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX File Open and Files Save Dialogue Control.  Features included:  Multi-Select;  Multi-Path Name;  Selectable Windows Explorer Style

• NEW:  Enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Font Selection Dialogue control

• NEW:  Enhanced Unicode,  32 Bit and 64 Bit ActiveX  ISimpleFrame container control providing snap-in functionality for developers to create boxes, title bars and container objects with a variety of border effects

• NEW:  Enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX Printer Dialogue Control.  Present either the Print or Print Setup Dialogues

• NEW:  Enhanced Unicode, 32 bit and 64 bit ActiveX UI Design Control with discrete navigation zones

What's New in Studio Controls COM v1.7

• New for Studio Controls COM, ctxCalendar combines the best of three appointment scheduling worlds into one 32 bit ActiveX control.  Multi Column Day View, Monthly Calendar, Week View. Load Data once and present Appointment, Contact, Location and Task detail across one, two or all three views

• Contact Management, Rolodex...  Create custom Rolodexes and contact management systems with ctxContact. Perfect for enhancing Corporate and Personal Information Management solutions. A great set of features provide full customization options for Developers

What's New in Studio Controls COM v1.6

• A new gauge control supporting a Primary and an array of Secondary Gauges, independent needle and needle points for each Gauge instance (primary and secondary gauges), animation and User Drawn Text highlight the new additions

• Create Image, Image Height and Image Width attributes have been added

• New Circular Meter Presentations - developers have complete control over meter presentations features including: define a Meter's path - start end angles, the meter value, add circular meter brush styles and enhance detailed information with the new User Draw Text capabilities

• Auto Ellipsis, control styles, text angle, text image, font presentation and Mnemonic key round-out enhancements for this new version.

• Create Image, Image Height and Image Width attributes have been added

What's New in Studio Controls COM v1.5:

• Unicode version of Combo released, backward compatible with ctCombo

•  Unicode version of Date released, backward compatible with ctDate

• Unicode version of Date Edit released, backward compatible with ctDEdit

• Unicode version of DropDate released, backward compatible with ctDropDate

• Unicode version of DropMenu released, backward compatible with ctDropMenu

• Unicode version of List View released, backward compatible with ctList

• Unicode version of ListBar released, backward compatible with ctListBar

• Unicode version of Meter released, backward compatible with ctMeter

• Unicode version of Masked Edit control released, backward compatible with ctMEdit

•  Unicode version of Numeric Edit control released, backward compatible with ctNEdit

• Unicode version of Slider control released, backward compatible with ctSlide

• Unicode version of Tool Tip control released, backward compatible with ctTips

• Unicode version of Tool Bar control released, backward compatible with ctToolBar

• Unicode version of Tree View control released, backward compatible with ctTreeView

• Enhanced multi-monitor support added

• nhanced multi-monitor support added

• Enhanced multi-monitor support added

•  Enhanced multi-monitor support added

• Enhanced multi-monitor support added

•  Enhanced multi-monitor support added

• Enhanced multi-monitor support added

• Enhanced multi-monitor support added

•  Enhanced multi-monitor support added

What's New in Studio Controls for COM v1.3:

• New: Header Border Color, Header Shadow Color, Header Style, enumHeaderStyle enumeration - These upgrades enhance 3D and Windows 7 style presentations

• Updated (without new GUID) allowing navigation to new months when a fill date is clicked in the drop calendar

• New: ListCtrlID, Selected Item and Selected List  -  these property additions allow for discrete interaction and presentation with the list attributes of the Outlook / Explorer Bar control.

• New: Silent (Property) functionality added - allowing for the suppression of all dialogs that the web browser control may generate. In some cases, this is useful, because it can help ensure a "quiet" user experience without unexpected popups

• New: Select Back Color To, Select Fill Type, Select Rounded Edge value added to the enum Select Type enumeration - these properties have been added to enhance Windows 7 style presentations

• New: After Page Change event - assists the developer synchronizing the data to be displayed for the current month presentation.

• New: Fill Vertical Edge 2 value added to the enum Fill Type enumeration - enhances Windows 7 style presentations.

• Tips Vista value added to enum Tips Type enumerations - enhances newer Windows style presentations

• Selected Drop Menu items now use an enhanced fill system allowing for improved 3D and Windows 7 presentations.

• New: Redraw method - allowing the developer to directly refresh the control

What's New in Studio Controls for COM v1.2:

• BeforeWeekSummaryPaint event added to enable changing of the Week Summary text through the WeekSummaryText property

• New Zune Black control style

• a new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2)

• enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on).

• Enhancement to the OnMouseWheel event enabling mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

• New Zune Black control style.

• An AppointmentForeColor property has been added allowing greater custom style setting by the developers

•  a new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2)

• enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

• Progress Bar -  Column data types can now be set to a "Progress Bar" style. Progress Bars will take a value of 0-100. Properties available on the Progress Bars include:  height, from color and to color, and fill type.

• Another new additional includes Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based) and the Pre-Column is set to return a value of 0.

• enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on

• a new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2)

• related style properties have been enhanced including:  HeaderOverFillType, HeaderOverBackColorTo, PreColumnFillType, and PreColumnBackColorTo

• Header arrows now have an additional setting for 'solid'

• Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

• Progress Bar -  Column data types can now be set to a "Progress Bar" style. Progress Bars will take a value of 0-100. Properties available on the Progress Bars include:  height, from color and to color, and fill type.

•  Sub Text formatting enhancement - a new SubTextBackColor property allows for Coloring of the background area of all the subtext areas. TheSubTextBackColor property is set to Clear by default

• Another new additional includes Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based) and the Pre-Column is set to return a value of 0.

•  enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

• New SelectedBackColorTo, SelectedFillType, NoFocusBackColorTo and NoFocusBorderColor properties have been added replacing the FocusType property (backward compatibility has been maintained) to allow greater control over focus and item selected border coloring.

•  Added, Windows 7 fill styles for Rounded Borders. Selected items now use a 2 pass fill system that allows the fill and the border to have an enhanced 3D presentation.

•  Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

• A new addition to ctTree includes Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based), and the Pre-Column is set to return a value of 0

• enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

• New SelectedBackColorTo, SelectedFillType, NoFocusBackColorTo and NoFocusBorderColor properties have been added replacing the FocusType property (backward compatibility has been maintained) to allow greater control over focus and item selected border coloring.

• DrawFocus property added (like ctList)

• New sorting methods - FindFirstSelected and FindNextSelected methods have been added

•  New Header styling properties - NodeHeaderBackColor, NodeHeaderBackColorTo, and NodeHeaderFillType properties are now available

•  Added, Windows 7 fill styles for Rounded Borders. Selected items now use a 2 pass fill system that allows the fill and the border to have an enhanced 3D presentation.

• Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

What's New in Studio Controls for COM v1.1:

Studio Controls for COM v1.1 certified for and supported on Windows 7

• Updated with ColumnAt method and TimeAt method - ideal for identifying specific location of cursor and/or defining specific location by coordinates.

• upgraded with Plus/Minus notation. Entering + or - and a value when running the control in numeric format will increment/decrement the current value of the control by the number of days entered

• Upgraded with Plus/Minus notation. Entering + or - and a value when running the control in numeric format will increment/decrement the current value of the control by the number of days entered.

• Upgraded List Headers with Border Colors, new Header Style properties - including specific styles settings for header over; selected items - styles and fill types; pre-column alignment - aligns text, images etc. contained in the pre-column.

• New sort arrow color, sort arrow type; upgraded ctTree Headers - Border Colors, new Header Style properties - including specific styles settings for header over

• New foreground color added allowing for Returning/setting the foreground color of a tool bar button

What was new in Studio Controls for COM v1.0:

• New licensing model fully compliant with Microsoft Access 2007 third party component licensing.  NEW - PropertyPage Property providing access to the custom property pages in design-time or run-time for all IDE's independent of the IDE’s object menu.

• Vista Styles

• Vista Styles, header status for list items, Dual Monitor support

• Retired, replaced by ctDayView

• This is a new Multi-Column DayView control incorporating all of the great functionality from its predecessor and now includes: Vista styles, display up to 35 days/columns in a view, custom header styles, Weekend designation, new navigation styles, Double click appointments, individual appointment styles, variable appointment time increments, multiple time zones, methods and properties for managing appointment conflicts, appointment formatting options, appointment key ID's, appointment images, built-in printing

• Vista Styles

• Vista Styles, and New Navigation options

• Vista Styles, new Font property, now set control visibility at run-time, new menu selected-item properties

• Vista styles, Null check boxes can be set to ignore mouse clicks

• Vista styles

• Retired, replaced by ctDayView

• Vista styles

• Retired

• Vista styles, additional currency support,

• Dual Monitor support, Vista-styles tips, separate header/ footer and body areas, header/ footer and boy areas support text and/or an image. Use a bitmap image as a tip, Color masking, support for irregular shaped tips. Also, support for windowless control in IDE's such as VFP and MS Access

• Vista Styles, Dual Monitor support,  Vertical and Horizontal orientation, set menus top/bottom/left/right. Unique fonts in buttons and menu items. adjust ToolBar on-screen location using StartDragOut event, Menu item select properties

• Null check boxes can be set to ignore mouse clicks, Vista styles

• Developer modifiable header colors per column, Vista styles

• Vista Styles