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MenuEx ActiveX control
$114.95 - Inspired Creations

A MenuEx control, allows you to handle VB menus.

Supports:
- Office XP/2003 menu styles
- Windows XP icons (alpha support)
- Header, Sidebar and Color items
- Custom drawn items
- Add/insert/remove items on the fly
- Unicode character-encoding standard
- Bidirectional languages
- MDI applications
- Full color customization
- Compatible with Windows XP themes
- Custom highlight styles
- Help text for each item
- Control over the system menu
- Background picture
- Custom checkmark icon
- Radio checkmarks

Possible Uses
- To customize the look of the menus in your VB applications.
- To display Office-like menus with icons.
- To display special menu items such as Headers, SideBars or Colors.

A MenuEx control handles menus in Visual Basic projects. It allows you to simply display icons and set the help text for the menu items, to set special items such as Sidebars, Headers or Color menu items, giving also the ability to the advanced user to handle the menus appearance by custom drawing their contents.

This is a highly customizable, powerful ActiveX control that needs only one line of code to give personal style to your applications.

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IconXP
$19.95 - Aha-soft

Aha-soft IconXP allows you to edit icons and customize the Windows desktop appearance. It supports the new icon format introduced in Windows XP (employs smooth transparency and other visual effects). Using this program you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color depths up to 32-bit True Color with 8-bit alpha channel. Paint tools include: color replacer, color selector, spray can, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line tool, rectangle, curve, ellipse, 3d frame. Modifiers can also be used to apply color gradients and chess fills. For Windows XP icons, you get to add cool drop shadow and smooth effects.

IconXP supports .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .xpm, .xbm, .wbmp and Adobe Photoshop .psd file formats. You can import images from screen captures. IconXP allows you to import, export and change color palettes for icon images.

IconXP allows you to change standard Windows icons, folder icons and customize desktop attributes. You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects - My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, system folders and your own folders. You can also hide or change shortcut overlays. There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, and rebuild the icon cache.

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StatusBar ActiveX control
$79.95 - Inspired Creations

A StatusBar control displays various kinds of status data.

Supports:
- Simple/multi panel styles
- Full color customization
- Auto coloration
- Windows XP icons (alpha support)
- Add/copy/remove panels on the fly
- Background picture
- Three grip styles
- Tooltips for each panel
- Custom drawn panels
- Unicode character-encoding standard
- Bidirectional languages
- MDI applications
- Contained controls
- plus more ...

This is an easy to use, powerful ActiveX control that will help you design professional applications.

Possible Uses
- As a replacement for the standard MS StatusBar control.
- To provide status data for your applications, in a professional design.

A StatusBar control typically displays information about an object being viewed on the form, the object's components, or contextual information that relates to that object's operation. The StatusBar, along with other controls, gives you the tools to create an interface that is economical and yet rich in information.

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Icon Craft
$49.95 - Icon Empire

Icon Craft gives professional and amateur artists the ability to design and edit all the graphics required in the software development cycle, including icons, static and animated cursors, and other interface elements. All these graphics can now be designed using a single application.

Icon Craft offers a variety of features that cannot be found in standard graphics applications. Icon Craft includes the ability to import icons from executables, image and library files. The built-in search and extract function enables busy artists to scan through the contents of a folder or a drive and arrange all images found in any files into a single icon library for easy and effective management.

This program features a greatly improved image editor that offers graphic artists a number of breakthrough features, including the ability to create icons with several raster layers. Layers give you more freedom in using complex graphic tools and creating professional images. This new feature enables Icon Craft to rival any high-end graphics package. In fact, when considering icon creation, Icon Craft is already at the top of the list.

Icon Craft is supplied with all the essential drawing tools, including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes, as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software is well equipped in the effects department too and offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects. The native support for the Windows XP icon format enables artists to create 32-bit icons. Icon Craft also includes a number of unique features, such as the ability to apply effects to multiple images in the icon collection.

Other new features in Icon Craft include the support for large images, the ability to export and import transparent PNG images, the ability to export all images from a library to a single 32-bit image and an improved interface.

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IconEmpire
$29.95 - Icon Empire

IconEmpire gives professional and amateur artists the ability to design and edit all the graphics required in the software development cycle, including icons, static and animated cursors, and other interface elements. All these graphics can now be designed using a single application.

IconEmpire offers a variety of features that cannot be found in standard graphics applications. IconEmpire includes the ability to import icons from executables, image and library files. The built-in search and extract function enables busy artists to scan through the contents of a folder or a drive and arrange all images found in any files into a single icon library for easy and effective management.

This program features a greatly improved image editor that offers graphic artists a number of breakthrough features, including the ability to create icons with several raster layers. Layers give you more freedom in using complex graphic tools and creating professional images. This new feature enables IconEmpire to rival any high-end graphics package. In fact, when considering icon creation, IconEmpire is already at the top of the list.

IconEmpire is supplied with all the essential drawing tools, including various kinds of airbrushes, pencils and paintbrushes, as well as miscellaneous text, line and shape tools. The software is well equipped in the effects department too and offers a variety of solid, patterned and gradient flood fills, drop shadow, smooth, color modification and other effects. The native support for the Windows XP icon format enables artists to create 32-bit icons. IconEmpire also includes a number of unique features, such as the ability to apply effects to multiple images in the icon collection.

Other new features in IconEmpire include the support for large images, the ability to export and import transparent PNG images, the ability to export all images from a library to a single 32-bit image and an improved interface.

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IconDeveloper
$19.95 - Stardock Systems

IconDeveloper is a program that makes it a snap to create your own icons for Windows. Most icon editors come with their own graphics editor. IconDeveloper doesn't. Instead, it assumes that most people who want to create icons are either going to create them using an existing graphics package like Photoshop, MS Paint, CorelDraw, or they take existing images (.BMP, .PNG, .JPG, etc.) and turn those into icons.

So instead of putting effort into a bitmap editor, IconDeveloper focuses itself on making it really, really easy to turn existing images into Windows icons and allowing for common modification of those icons (resizing, color changing, etc.). The result is a program that makes icons extremely fast, extremely well and extremely easily.

The free version allows for the creation of standard Windows icons, Windows XP icons, and shell integration.

An enhanced version is also available for $19.95, which adds additional features such as creating and editing any sized icons at any resolution up to 256x256, changing the hue/gamma/color of the icons, batch convert and batch colorize entire folders of icons. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock's premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: .

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