MB ActiveX Gallery for VB6
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The MB ActiveX Gallery is a collection of 15 powerful controls
written by Marco Bellinaso
for .Net2TheMax. These controls greatly extend the VB's intrinsic
controls and add many new features that are normally available only
by writing a lot of API code or buying 3rd party commercial controls.
Instead, the MB ActiveX Gallery is completely free, even if used
in commercial applications!
There are controls that you can use to build a rich UI, others make it easier
to deal with the system's events and API calls. Here is the controls list, with a brief description for each
one:
- ProgressBar: renders a graphical bar with gradient colors
or a picture to display the progress status.
- ColorPicker: reproduces and extends the color picker provided
with Office 2000.
- ShellSpy: allows you to know when the user performs any file
system operation.
- BrowseForFolder: shows and allows to customize the "Browse
for Folder" dialog.
- Scroller: makes your form scrollable
if not all the controls are visible.
- ActiveLink: when clicked it makes the user jump to the specified web URL,
Email address or document.
- InterProcess: allows you to have two applications that communicate
with each other by exchanging low level messages.
- MouseHelper: adds events and methods to have the complete
control over the mouse.
- MsgBoxEx: allows you to display any icon, change the caption
of the buttons and the position of a message box.
- TipOfTheDay: adds the standard Tip-Of-The-Day dialog (or
a customized one) to your applications.
- Tray: allows you to place an icon (static or animated) in
the system tray area and associate it to your application.
- HiTimer: a timer class/control with an accuracy of 1 ms, which also includes the CountDown
and the StopWatch methods.
- Splitter: adds splitting capabilities to your forms without
writing code.
- ListEx: renders each list item with different bitmaps, colors and fonts, and much more.
- FormEx: adds a number of features to the VB's forms,
such as the automatic resize for fonts and controls.
Click here for further details
and a screenshot of each control, and to download them for free!
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Want the source code?
The complete source code of all the controls is available for sale. Here are some good reasons to buy it:
- At the same cost of a book, maybe with basic samples,
you can get some real world and complete controls from which you
will learn a lot of advanced COM and API techniques.
- You don't trust free controls but don't want to spend
hundreds of dollars for commercial controls that do pretty much
the same. Get the source and see by yourself how they work.
- Have you found a bug and don't want to wait for a bug fix?
Debug the code in your IDE and fix the bug by yourself.
- Add the controls' source code files into your project, compile everything together, and
avoid distribuiting and registering separate OCX files.
- Extend the controls by adding the features you need and
that haven't been implemented.
- Extract from the source only some routines and use them in
other contexts, without the need of distribuiting code that won't
be used.
- Make a few changes and compile some or all the controls into a single OCX,
to save space and to avoid the need to redistribuite multiple files.
The price for the source of all the 15 controls? Only 49$,
about 3$ each!
Click here to buy
the complete source code now!
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