Button Objx

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 Button Objx is the most comprehensive button-like control available. Not only can you replace the Windows button control to create visually enhanced buttons, you can create fully customized active buttons and toolbars as well as custom-shaped containers. You can also dynamically change pictures and shapes, add multiple hotspots within your custom-shaped region, or use its many features to fully customize your interface. Also included is the Balloon control, the easiest and most extensive control for adding customized help balloons (tool tips) to your application using standard or custom shapes.

  Button Overview | Cell Overview | Cell Details | Balloon Control | Button Designer

 
Button Overview

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• Easily replace the Windows button control
• Create active-style buttons with or without 3D borders
• Create a toolbar or tool palette
• Use one button to perform multiple operations using hotspots, saving valuable system resources
• Display a different picture for the up, down, and disabled states or when the mouse pointer is over the button or an individual cell
• Use as a container to host other controls
• Dynamically change the shape or characteristics of the button in response to your user
• Automatically resize the button based on the parent size and specify offsets

 
Cell Overview

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• Create up to 512 cells or regions per button
• Each cell can contain text, pictures, act as a hotspot, or display special 3D effects
• Make the individual cells or entire button transparent
• Use a picture to define the shape of an individual cell or the entire button
• Load a previously saved button template into a cell
• Apply three-dimensional text to individual cells
• Disable individual cells
• Specify the space between the cell contents and the cell boundaries

Cell Details

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Create up to 512 "cells", or regions, each with its own:

• Text, Font and Color for both the "up" and "down" states of the control
• Pictures for the up, down, and disabled states of the control or when the mouse passes over the cell
• Custom alignment of the text and pictures within the cell
• Three-dimensional appearance, including "active borders" which show the 3D effect around the cell only when the mouse passes over it
• Orientation by rotating the cell in 90 degree increments or displaying the text vertically
• Text for the balloon control to display when the mouse passes over the cell
• Shape using up to 512 "segments", or lines, using different shapes for each line

 
Balloon Control

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• Display a help balloon (tool tip) displaying customized text when the cursor is over most development controls
• Choose from four balloon shapes (round, square, ellipse, or cloud) or customize your own shape by loading a button template into the balloon
• Choose an optional tail type (straight or bubble)
• Display an optional drop shadow behind the balloon
• Automatically resize the balloon to fit its text
• Change the balloon's appearance or content at design time or at run time
• Share the balloon across multiple windows

 
Button Designer

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• Easily customize your shape at design time using the Button Designer's Cell Editor, Segment Editor and Button Editor
• Use the Cell Editor to assign text colors, hotspots, or bitmaps to each button cell
• Use the Segment Editor to assign a shape (square, ellipse, round, or straight) to each button segment or cell
• Use the Button Editor to select cells or segments, drag-and-drop cells and grab handles, and resize cells and segments using the built-in alignment grid
• Create template files that can be loaded at design-time or at run-time into the button or into a cell
• Begin your design with one of 16 pre-defined templates