AlphaControls is a collection of standard and original skinned controls with new properties added in order to enhanced program interface and add behaviors to common controls and with some new technologies using.

Some features :

• Professional looking applications!
  
• Over 80 skinable controls and invisible components + skinable standard Delphi controls and a lot of 3rd-party controls
  
• All elements of controls are drawn with alpha-channel using (control may be alpha-blended, can have realistic borders, shadows or other fine and unique effects)
  
• Flicker free
  
• Graphics functions are rendered in real-time, so, effects are always sharp with color scheme used and also moving and resizing in run-time of each control is supported
  
• TsHintManager make hints to be displayed alpha-blended, with HTML-formatting and you can choose from many ways to display
  
• Added caption properties for position and rendering
  
• Mouse event added provide great possiblities
  
• Skinned forms and menus. Full SDI & MDI forms support
  
• Skin support for all Common Windows dialogs and messages
  
• Built-in support of the PNG format, TsAlphaImageList component is very handy in work
  
• Easiest and powerful skin-engine supports of internal and external skins, one type of control can have some kinds in skin. All drawings (patterns except) supports alpha-masks
  
• Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component)
  
• Possibility of components using without skins. Standard kind of controls is supported (XP themes using is possible)
  
• Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library
  
• Designing in design-time in IDE
  
• Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing. Freeware skin editing tool is available.
  
• Animation effects in some controls and forms
  
• Skinned windows shell controls
  
• Billenium effects full support
  
• No DLLs or any additional files are required for Exe deploying
  
• Changing of HUE and saturation for current skin in run-time
  
• Full standard windows help file describing all properties, events and methods of components and related objects
  
• Possibility of the skins embedding in the single Exe-file by few mouse clicks
  
• A lot of additional useful and amazing features and possibilities, the list of them increases constantly
  
  

With AlphaControls, use a new modern way to design enhanced interfaces and make your application more attractive... while adding pleasure and fun to end users.

Specifications :

• For Delphi 5/6/7/2005-2010/XE/XE2 and C++ Builder 6/2006-2010/XE/XE2
• Compatible with Windows XP, Vista
• Installation :
  1. Compile acntX_r.dpk file;
  2. Install acntX.dpk file.