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PatternCombo ActiveX Control
$19.95 - NiceFeather Software Solutions Corp.

Key Features:
1. Ideal tool to select GDI brush from customized patterns list.
2. Support solid brush, hatch brush, customizing texture brush.
3. A built-in professional patterns Pick/Edit dialog.
4. Offers powerful items data management capabilities such as add, insert, delete, find, move, get/set information.
5. Item type can be General, Default, Browse and Separate style, all types has own properties, methods and events.
6. Item string, font, height, shadow, fore/back color, and other properties are completely customizable.
7. Full support XP theme with a .NET development.

Detail Description:
PatternCombo ActiveX Control is an ActiveX control based on standard combo box for all software developers. it is a member of ComboPro ActiveX Controls Suite.

This control is an ideal tool to select GDI brush from customized patterns list, support solid brush, hatch brush, customizing texture brush, and a built-in professional patterns Pick/Edit dialog. It offers powerful items data management capabilities such as add, insert, delete, find, move, get/set information.

This control support multiple item types that includes General, Default, Browse, and Separate style, all types has own properties, methods and events, these item types can satisfy all developers' difference demands in application programming.

This control's item type, string, font, height, shadow, fore/back color, and other properties are completely customizable.

This control's one of important feature is that a built-in professional patterns Pick/Edit dialog, which is competent for picking any GDI brush like solid brush, hatch brush, customizing texture brush. To developer, just set an item type to "Browse", this patterns Pick/Edit dialog contains predefined patterns, end user can enjoys editing and picking patterns, a GDI brush handle can be obtain directly through invoking methods inside.

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Camouflage
$0 - VanDerLee

Camouflage is a freeware plug-in for PhotoShop compatible plug-in hosts.
It will work with applications such as Adobe PhotoShop, JASC Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, ULead PhotoImpact and MicroGrafx Picture Publisher amongst many others.

With Camouflage you can easily create any type of camouflage texture you desire, ranging from authentic WW2 army vehicle camouflage patterns to modern-day NATO patterns to animal textures of various types.

You have full control over the look and feel of the effect; scale, blurring (the smoothness of the spots), falloff (how much area each color layer should cover), up to 8 different color layers and a random feature, allowing for 10,000 different patterns.

All textures generated by the Camouflage plug-in are seamless and can be wrapped for use in web background use or 3D graphics and since the pattern is automatically scaled to the image size, you can even use it to easily create mipmaps for use in real-time 3D applications.

There also a large list of common, authentic (WW2, NATO) and animal color presets, based on actual patterns.

This plug-in is free to download, so you have no excuse to not try it yourself!

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EasyPattern Engine
$199 - DataMystic

EasyPattern Engine COM DLL provides a cool new way to describe text patterns. They're English-like, powerful and easy to understand. EasyPatterns make parsing a US phone number as easy as

[ PhoneNumber ]

or if you prefer the long way:

[ optional punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 4 digits ]

Once found it's easy to re-arrange it or reformat it. Using this pattern:

[ optional punctuation, capture(3 digits), punctuation, capture(3 digits), punctuation, capture(4 digits) ]

...we could re-arrange phone numbers like this:
$1.$2.$3
($1) $2-$3
+1.$1.$2.$3

How easy is that!

You can easily control the quantity of text you match, and include literal text like this:

[ 1 or more digits, '.', 2 digits ]
$[ 2+ digits, '.', 2 digits ]
USD [ 3 to 6 digits ].00

You can easily match dates like this:

[ Day <-/ > Month Year ]
[ Month Day Year ]
[ Year Month Day ]

('Month' matches numbers 1-12, and short and long month names)

EasyPatterns are included in TextPipe Pro - the world's fastest multi-search and replace tool.

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PatternStringEngine
$39.95 - SoftComplete Development

Pattern String Engine is intended for lexical analysis of strings. Is based on technology "pattern matching". Allows to find all possible variants of comparison string with a pattern. Work with assignment inside pattern and much more.

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PatternHelper
$20 - DataMystic

Makes it easy for developers AND beginners to design and test patterns. Patterns written with perl regular expressions, egrep regex, MS Word or Brief pattern matching languages can be designed and tested with syntax highlighting and a slick test facility. PatternHelper can run stand-alone, and also integrates with TextPipe Pro and a host of other applications. Default patterns can also be chosen from a list.

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AHatch Pro
$50 - Fell & Kernbach GmbH

In many fields (eg. Civil Engeneering (USCS, DIN 4023, ...), Architecture, Geosciences, Cartography, ...) complex hatch patterns are needed for a clear graphical representation.
AHatch Pro is a flexible tool for the design of AutoCAD hatch patterns. The generated hatch patterns can be used with the AutoCAD "hatch" and "bhatch" commands. AHatch Pro is developed as a stand-alone program and may be used independently of Autodesk AutoCAD.

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