Summary: This control is a great substitute for the ProgressBar included in the Common Windows Controls package and can give a nicer look to your applications. It has a BackColor property, BarStartColor and BarEndColor properties for creating a gradient bar and a Picture/BarPicture properties to create a graphical progress bar. Of course the bar can be drawn in smooth style or divided in cells. The control supports many border styles and an AutoCaption property that automatically sets the caption on the Value or Percentage property. You can add a custom caption before or after the automatic value, the caption can be drawn vertically and aligned as you want.

Summary: This control reproduces and extends the color picker provided by Office 2000. It has a drop down palette that shows any color combination you want and (optionally) a custom button to open the Windows Common Dialog Control for color selection. In addition each color box can have a different tooltip. Every aspect of the control is customizable. It can look like a combo box, a simple button, a checkbox button, a dropdown button, etc. You can choose the color and width of the 3D border that highlight the color box under the mouse cursor, the height and width of the color boxes, the custom button's text, the number of colors per row, and much more. The control's events let you to customize its behaviour even more. There is also a property page that allows you to easily add the colors you want to display and add some standard palettes that cover the red/green/blue/grey scale, 16, 48 or system colors.

Summary: This control lets you know when the user performs any file system operation, such as file or folder creation, deletion, renaming, and so on. In addition you can know when a network drive is added or removed, when a media support (e.g. a CD) is inserted or removed, when the user adds or removes a printer or an Internet connection, and when a file association is created or edited. You can decide to spy the entire system or only a specific drive or folder. For each event you know the new and the old path and PIDL of the file/folder. A typical use of this control could be inside a file system log application.

Summary: If you want to show the "Browse for Folder" dialog in your own application, this is the tool for you. It enables you to change any dialog's property, such as its caption, foreground color, font, TreeView styles (HotTracking, SingleClickExpand, LinesAtRoot and so on), a textbox to manually type the folder name, and a label control to display the currently selected folder. You can also decide to display folders only, folders and file, printers or the Internet neighborhood. The control exposes a set of events that let you know when the dialog is about to be displayed (so that you can select an initial folder) and when a user selects a folder, and you can cancel the standard dialog action. You can also learn everything about the item that is currently selected: its path and display name, its small and large icons, its description, the type of exe (if it is an executable file), all its attributes. If the user selected a folder, you can determine whether it is shared or has any subfolders. The package contains both the control and a class module, so that you can use all the functionality even if you don't have a form to place the control on. There is also a FolderTree control, a special TreeView control that automatically shows the file system structure and all its item. You can use it to create an even more customized "Browse for folder" dialog or to add a file/folder browser into your own application.

Summary: Have you ever spent your time trying to arrange too many controls on a form that was too small for all of them? Now you can relax, at last. Just drop the MB Scroller Control on a form and all your other control on the Scroller. if the form resizes and not all the controls are visible, the Scroller control shows a vertical/horizontal scrollbar, thus making your form a scrollable form. The scrollbars hide and show automatically, and if you have the ActiveDesktop installed you can also change their style into 3D, Flat or Track3D, the same styles of the VB FlatScrollbar) and their background color. The control exposes all the standard scrollbar's events, as well as two methods to programmatically scroll the form's contents.

Summary: The MB ActiveLink Control is a label-type control that the end user can click to jump to the specified web URL, Email address or document, or open the associated application. When sending an EMail you can specify the Subject, CC and BCC fields. But the ActiveLink control can do much more, and you can assign two different values for the caption, font, foreground and backgRound color, and picture properties, depending on whether the mouse is over the control or not. There is also the MouseEnter and MouseLeave event, to let you decide exactly what happens when the mouse hovers on the control. With this control you can create nice Web style buttons and active pictures.

Summary: This control lets you have two applications that communicate with each other. Just select the target application by its handle or partial/whole caption, set the string or the Long data to send, and then call the Send method. The target application - that must host an instance of the InterProcess control - receives a DataReceived event and can therefore retrieve the data sent and the sender's handle and caption, and even reply to the message.

Summary: This ActiveX gives you the complete control over the mouse. The MouseEnter and MouseLeave events tell you when the mouse cursor enters or leaves any control on the form, which lets you create cool hot-tracking effects. The MouseWheel event fires when the mouse wheel is rotated, so you can use this event to let the end user scroll a horizontal scroll or zoom in/out, as in Internet Explorer. There are also several methods that let you move, snap or clip the cursor where you want, to load an animated cursor, to simulate the Click, DblClick, MouseDown, MouseUp events, as well as to retrieve all the information related to the mouse, such as the cursor position, the button state, the swapped buttons state, and the window or the control under the cursor.

Summary: This control is an extended and object-oriented version of the VB's MsgBox function. You can center the message box on your form or place it everywhere you want, display any icon, and change the caption of every button. You can finally create a standard dialog with the Yes, Yes to All, No, No to All buttons, or any other combination you want.

Summary: Many commercial programs have a Tip of the Day dialog, that shows a tip or trick whenever the application starts. With the MB TipOfTheDay Control you can add this nice feature to your apps without writing a single line of code. The tips are contained into a INI file, and the control uses the same file to save the index of the current tip and other informations. (Nothing is written in the registry.) The dialog is completely customizable in its size, colors, fonts, the presence of a Previous button in addition to the standard Next one, and the caption of each control, so localizing the dialog is a breeze.

Summary: This control lets you place an icon in the system tray area and associate it to your application. The icon can be static or animated, if you specify a series of frames. The control has a ToolTip property and you can also flash the icon with a used defined speed. The MB Tray Control exposes all the standard mouse events for displaying a menu or taking a default action when the user click or double click the icon in the system tray.

Summary: Everybody knows that the VB timer is not much accurate: about 10 milliseconds on Windows NT and 50 milliseconds on Win9.x. In addition, the interval value is a Integer value so you can't choose an interval greater that just over 1 minute. If you need greater accuracy or longer intervals, the MB HiTimer is the right control. It has a accuracy of 1 ms and an Interval property specified as a Long value. This control includes the CountDown and the StopWatch methods to benchmarck your routines. The package includes both the control and a class module with the same features, so that you can use this better timer even if you don't have a form to place a control. You can gets notifications from the class through standard events or though a secondary interface.

Summary: Place this control on a form to immediately achieve splitting capabilities. It works as a container control, and the controls you drop on it will be automatically resized when the end user moves the splitter bars. You can control the splitter bar's size, color, and position, and programmatically assign controls to its two panes. The SplitBegin and SplitComplete events inform you when the drag operation begins and ends, so your code can do any additional processing as required.

Summary: This extended ListBox control adds many features that are missing in the standard VB control, such as support for bitmaps, control on the height, forecolor, backcolor, and font of individual list items, a horizontal scrollbar, text indentation. The MBListEx control is great to display a list of custom or system colors.

Summary: Add this control to a VB form and enjoy a number of great new features, including: the control over the size and position of the form when maximized, automatic resizing for fonts and controls (including controls that are added dynamically), transparent background, new items to system menu, the capability to be Always-on-top and to flash the caption to draw user's attention, and the FullScreen mode. The MBFormEx control exposes also a number of events that should have added to VB forms, such as ActivateApp and DeactivateApp, CompactingMemory, DisplayChanged, DragDropFiles, ItemSelect, Move, and SysItemClick (that fires when a system menu item has been clicked).