Description

DesignerForms is a group of components you can use to enhance the look and functionality of the forms in your applications. DesignerForms provides a no code solution to:

• Creating forms with caption bars of any height;
• Displaying buttons, graphics and text in the caption bar;
• Creating distinctive caption bar backgrounds with graphic tiles;
• Creating RollUp and OnTop buttons for easily created tool palettes;
• Customizing the system menu and other system buttons.

Informations

• Status: Trial (work while IDE is running)
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $25
• Source price: $50
• Size: 447kB

Platforms: CB1, D1, D2, D3, D5

Description

At the heart of the ExpressLayout Control lies a basic concept - You place controls within its 'groups' - the equivalent of container controls such as TPanel or TGroupBox. This in turn automatically gives your applications unique design time and runtime customization capabilities via a docking metaphor similar to the Delphi/C++ Builder IDE.

With the ExpressLayout Control, you are freed from manual, pixel-by-pixel positioning of individual controls and liberated from runtime screen resolution problems so common in Delphi/C++ Builder applications. Simply said, the ExpressLayout Control takes the miserably tedious process of UI layout and turns it upside down.

By linking the controls on your form - such as your grids, page controls, editors, etc - to the Layout Control, you immediately provide your products with highly sophisticated layouts, which end-users can manipulate as desired at runtime.

Informations

• Status: Demo only
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $149.99
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 1 459kB

Platforms: C2k6, CB5, CB6, D2005, D2006, D2007, D5, D6, D7

Description

FormDesigner Component - WindowDesigner

Features:

• Can assign parent-control to design in that controls only by assigning DesignerCtl property.
• Supports GuideLines when move or resize.
• Uses message hooking method.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 443kB

Platforms: C2k6, C2k7, CB6, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D6, D7

Description

With FormEx you change some additional properties that not available on Standard TForm. With some clicks you can enable drag and drop operation to your form, change your form background with image (tile / center / stretch) or you can also use gradient (horizontal / vertical / ellipse), you can also utilize animated cursor for your form, make your caption scrolling and you can put your static and animated icon on tray icon.

FormEx also offer some cool function such as magnetize your window to edge of the screen, make your window always movable, keep your window on the top, disable your window close button, make your window visible on taskbar (like MS Office).

Informations

• Status: Demo only
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $28.55
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 254kB

Platforms: CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D4, D5, D6

Description

The FormMagnet allows to magnetize your forms to an edges of screen / work area, borders of parent window and to other forms. Forms can glue each others, so when user moves the form, others, ïgluedï forms will be moved too. With FormMagnet, your forms can looks and feels like windows of famous WinAmp player.

With FormMagnet forms obtains following abilities:

• to be attracted to edges of screen or work area (considering placement of task / appbars);
• to be attracted to borders of parent form (for child windows);
• to attract other forms (with FormMagnet on them) to itself;
• to glue other forms to itself (when user move form, others, attached forms will be moved too);
• to move forms, dragging by client area.

Informations

• Status: With Nag-Screen
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $14
• Source price: $29
• Size: 273kB

Platforms: C2k6, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D2, D2005, D2006, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

LMD DesignPack is a collection of native VCL components that can be compiled into your application royalty free. It contains controls which help you to enhance your projects with advanced designing features - either by adding object inspector like controls, extended form designers or diagram like objects.

Features:

• 9 components for adding design features to your applications;
• Provides object inspector like component, form designer and diagram based controls;
• TLMDDesignManager control: Connect designer control(s) with object combobox/property inspector to set up designable forms with almost no code;
• TLMDObjectComboBox control: Delphi object inspector like object combo box;
• Support of ASCII/binary DFM format for saving/restoring form data;
• Full sourcecode of library;
• Extensive demo projects demonstrating advanced features - even a report designer is basically included;
• A Site License covers unlimited number of developers in same organization at one location
• Free technical support via newsgroup (news.lmdtools.com), e-mail, fax or mail;
• Also available as part of LMD IDE-Tools or LMD VCL Complete.

For full list of all available LMD packages and features check out our LMD VCL feature matrix or the public download pages for trials and precompiled demos.

Informations

• Status: Trial (work while IDE is running)
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $79
• Size: 6 912kB

Platforms: CB6, C2k6, D2006, C2k7, D2007, C2k9, D2009, C2k10, D2010, CBXE, DXE, D6, D7, D2005, CBXE2, DXE2, CBXE3, DXE3, CBXE4, DXE4, CBXE5, DXE5, CBXE6, DXE6, CBXE7, DXE7, CBXE8, DXE8, C10, D10, C10.1, D10.1, C10.2, D10.2, C10.3, D10.3, C10.4, D10.4, C11, D11

Description

Localisation form that translates most text properties (Caption, Hint, TStrings and embedded TCollection items) of the components found in the instantiated forms of the application at run-time.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 30kB

Platforms: D3, D4

Description

TPersistor saves/retrieves your your forms' translation, logical state, layout and more with one line of code. It saves specified properties for specified component types to a file or the registry or to the component itself. A property editor is available at design time to specify which properties to save from which components.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 36kB

Platforms: CB1, CB3, D2, D3, D4

Description

Expandes usually used forms.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 191kB

Platforms: D5, D6

Description

SxMagnet enables you to simply develop applications that have a form-positioning behaviour similar to the WinAmp MP3 player.

• Windows are attracted by other windows containing the SxMagnet-component and by the screen-borders (the magnetic range of each component is adjustable).
• Windows can stick to each other, so that if you move one window the other windows follow the movement.
• When windows are resized they also align to other magnetic windows. So window alignment is made very easy.
• It is possible to drag a form with SxMagnet on by clicking into the client area.
• Each SxMagnet-component has a group-index by which windows can be arranged. A window is only influenced by windows with the same group-index.
• Holding down CTRL when beginning to move the window will - similar to docking windows in Delphi's IDE - temporally disable the form's magnet.
• [New]: SxMagnet fully supports working with MDI-windows
• Registered version works with all Win32 Delphi Versions (V2 - V2006) and with C++ Builder.

Informations

• Status: With Nag-Screen
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $15
• Source price: $25
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 202kB

Platforms: C2k6, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D2, D2005, D2006, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

True form inheritance for Delphi 1 without depth limit. Usage: Just inherit your form from TAncestorForm and any form you inherit from it will merge its ancestor's resource.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 12kB

Platforms: D1

Description

The TAppBar class is a TForm derived class, that lets your form to behave like an Application Desktop Toolbar (i.e. to dock on the edges of the screen like the Windows 95/NT Taskbar). "An application desktop toolbar (or an appbar for short) is a window that attaches itself to an edge of your screen. (The shell's taskbar window is a well-known example of an appbar). Though appbars are usually docked on an edge of the user's screen, they also can float. To make room for an appbar that's docked, the Windows 95/NT task , not the full screen. If an appbar is docked on the edge of the screen, moved from one. It can assume one of the following values: abeLeft, abeTop, abeRight, abeBottom, abeUnknown, abeFloat. Many other features.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 65kB

Platforms: D2, D3

Description

• Easy-to-use, For Active: TdFormDesigner1.Active := True, For Passive: TdFormDesigner1.Active := False;
• Ctrl, Shift Keys support,
• Up, Down, Left, Right Keys Support,
• Easy Load/Save Dfm files,
• VCL Compatible Stream Format.

Informations

• Status: Demo only
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $125
• Source price: $250
• Size: 262kB

Platforms: D2006

Description

This form simulates the Windows-style "auto-hide" START menu tool bar. This form sits against an edge of the screen (left, right, top, or bottom) and will automatically shrink itself down to a thin line when there is no activity on the form. If the mouse pases over it, the form autmatically expands itself back to its full size mode. The user may use the mouse to resize the form, or to move it to a new screen edge, just like the Window START menu bar. The OnResize form event is called whenever the form shrinks or expands; in addition, OnResize is called whenever the form is moved to a new location (Delphi does not have an OnMove event, so we use OnResize to maintain a consistant interface). There are two components already defined on the form: a panel component (efPanel) and a timer (efTimer). These need to stay as they are. Any new components you add to the form (buttons, labels, etc) should be placed on top of the panel. This way they can be safely tucked away when the form is shrunken to a thin line along the edge of the screen. In addtion, you may use any of the standard Delphi events for the form (or the panel) such as OnResize, OnKeyPress, OnMouseDown, etc. One event is already defined: OnCreate. This event calls the initialization for the rest of the TEdgeForm functions; however, you may insert your own code right after the initialization routine. It is strongly recommended that you not modify any field or routine whose name starts with "ef" (such as 'efFindEdge', 'efDoMouseMove', etc) as these are the heart of the TEdgeForm. Only if you really understand what is going on should to change them.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 10kB

Platforms: D5

Description

This control allows you to have a:

• Gradient title-bar: just specify a colour and a gradient appears instead of the default boring plain title-bar
• Tray-icon: just set an icon (or a list of icons if you want some animation for instance), a popup-menu and even how the application can be recalled and that is: your application is in the tray
• Wall-paper: just specify a bitmap and you have a background which is automatically displayed (centered or tiled) on your form.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 79kB

Platforms: CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6

Description

Extended Form component. Features:

• gradient filled forms like in Microsoft's Office applications
• OnDrop event for dropped files from the Explorer onto the form
• properties for minimum / maximum size of the form
• using "Tahoma" as standard font.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 16kB

Platforms: D2

Description

TFormDesigner allows you move and resize any control on your form. You don't need to prepare your form to use TFormDesigner. Just place TFormDesigner into your form, set Active property to True and enjoy.

Form Designer features:

• Multi-selection
• ActiveX forms compatibility
• MDI forms compatibility
• Locking and protecting any controls
• Customizable design grid
• Customizable grab handles
• Align dialog
• Size dialog
• Alignment palette
• Size/coordinates hints
• Printable User Manual
• Full-functional form editor as free demo.

Informations

• Status: With Nag-Screen
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $74
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 437kB

Platforms: C2k10, C2k6, C2k7, C2k9, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, CB64, CBXE, CBXE2, CBXE3, CBXE4, CBXE5, CBXE6, CBXE7, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D7, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4, DXE5, DXE6, DXE64, DXE7

Description

TFormEx adds Docking capability (dock to desktop or other forms), add background image or gradient pattern, add form minimum and maximum size, Force Form to always stay on desktop, Hide caption bar, move window by clicking in client area, and window transparency.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 34kB

Platforms: D5

Description

TLocForm is a customized TForm descendant which provides an extremely easy way to localize Delphi applications. All user interface elements can be easily translated to the user locale. Unicode is supported. The technique used ensures that the application never has to be recompiled merely in order to provide additional locale translations. New locale translations can be made available separately at anytime without changing the application.

Requires the TMS Unicode Component Pack.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 571kB

Platforms: D2005, D2006, D2007, D5, D6, D7

Description

Wizard - simple component provides ability to turn form into wizard like.

It uses component TPageControl like pages source, three TbitBtn buttons (Next, Previous, Finish) with possibility to assign them default captions and glyphs. It has events such as BeforeNext, AfterNext, BeforePrev, AfterPrev e.t.c., validation property CanJump validated on before next or prev event.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 5kB

Platforms: D3, D4, D5