SmartToolEngine 2.0.a

SmartToolEngine is a good-optimized high-performance ActiveX component for creating and managing WinXP like style window menus, toolbars, popup menus and context menus with various appearance styles.

Features Summary

Tools Support
- Automatic support of group and state buttons
- Embedded calendar tool and combo box tool
- Extended tooltips. Specify both text and caption for the tooltip
- Captioned separator in popup
- Support of up to five different pictures, each one for every possible state of toolbar buttons
- Multiple shortcuts per one tool
- Label tool
- Automatic image generation

Popup Menus and Toolbars
- Personalized menus
- Context menus
- Popup toolbars
- Toolbars locking

Developer Framework
- Full Unicode support
- Tool Inspector Utility. Allows you to create application interface easily
- STE Code Generator Utility. Let it do the most elaborating part of the job for you
- Comprehensive programmer's reference
- Illustrative sample projects. The set of sample projects works as "how to" reference on the product
- More than a hundred of commonly used icons are shipped with the developer suite.

Appearance
- Two different modern styles
- Color and Font. Change these settings easily according to the overall application interface idea
- Up to five different images per one button or menu item
- Original toolbars behaviour model

Object Model
- Rich object model allows to manage the application's interface in natural manner
- Centralized tool management provides an easy way to handle corresponding buttons and popup menu items as one object

Performance
- High speed and correct system resources usage
- Environment friendly

Compatible Containers:
Compatible with all software development environments that support ActiveX.
Has been tested on:
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
- Microsoft Office 2000/2003

Requirements:	Win 2000 SP 4 / Win XP SP 1, 16MB RAM, 30MB HD, MS IE 5.5, ADO 2.7, Jet 4.0 SP 8
Release Info:	Minor Update on Jun 23, 2004
Release Notes:	Two different visual styles, full Unicode support, extended toolbar behaviour model