News
Mar 4, 2008 : NEW :
TMS TAdvChartView : fast multi-pane
financial & business charts v1.0
Create multi-pane or multiserie Line, Bar, Area, Stacked Bars, Stacked Area,
OHLC, CandleStick, Histogram, Bubble, Error charts
What's new in v1.0.0.0
- X-axis with index of date/time unit indication
- Y-axis with auto ranging, minor & major value indication along Y-axis,
multiple Y-axis values for different series supported
- Support for annotations & legend
- Panes with scrolling, scaling, splitter, drag & drop, synchronized scrolling
with mouse or keyboard
- Highly configurable crosshairs with value indication at series, Y-axis,
tracker & crosshair support along multiple panes
- Floating tracker window to see values at crosshairs
- Configurable grid, bands, margins for chart & chart background image
- Printing support, export to bitmap support
- Interface component to synchronise automatically with
TAdvStringGrid / TDBAdvGrid
- Anti-aliased chart drawing
- Support for complex gradients, opacity & opacity gradients
- Support for PNG images with alpha transparency for chart markers, textures
- Optional glass mirror effect support

Mar 4, 2008 : NEW : Two
articles on interoperability between TAdvStringGrid & TAdvChartView available
Two new articles explain how you can show a chart inside TAdvStringGrid or how
you can display grid data as chart serie without writing any code:
- Sample 74 : embedding charts in TAdvStringGrid
- Sample 75 : automatically connect TAdvStringGrid to
TAdvChartView with TAdvChartLink
Mar 4, 2008 : UPDATE :
TMS TAdvStringGrid v4.0.3.0
Feature-packed high productivity grid for
Delphi 5,6,7,2005,2006,2007 VCL + VCL.NET &
C++Builder 5,6,2006,2007
What's new and improved:
- New : Navigation.MoveScrollOnly property added to always only
perform scrolling and no selection change when pressing
Up/Down/Next/Prior/Home/End
- New : public property grid.XMLEncoding to specify code table
for XLM export
- New : 3 articles on usage of TAdvStringGrid
- Improved : AdvGridFindDialog.Dialog &
AdvGridReplaceDialog.Dialog exposed
- Various smaller fixes & improvements
Mar 1, 2008 : UPDATE :
TMS Component Pack v4.6.0.6
Over 280 controls to enable modern looking & feature rich Windows
applications with Delphi & C++Builder
Includes:
- Feature rich & flexible grids, calendars, planners, datepickers,
advanced edit controls, web updater, components
with HTML formatted text capabilities, Office 2003 / Office 2007 style toolbar /
ribbon bar, pagecontrols, tabsets,
statusbars and much much more ...
Mar 1, 2008 : UPDATE :
TMS Unicode Component Pack v1.5.1.2
Over 60 controls to add Unicode capabilities to your Delphi & C++Builder
applications

Features:
- Over 60 direct VCL control replacements to Unicode enable your
applications
- Unicode enabled Delphi/C++Builder object inspector!
- Unicode enabled hints
- Unicode enabled actions
- Works well with almost any IME
- Supports Unicode-only locales
What's improved
in v1.5.1.2:
- Fixed : issue with using TTntDialogs
HPP file generation with C++
Mar 1, 2008 : UPDATE :
TAdvTouchkeyboard & TAdvPopupTouchkeyboard v1.2.1.0
Configurable on-screen keyboard for touchscreen applications

Features:
- configurable keys
- built-in AZERTY,QWERTY,QWERTZ,DVORAK,NUMERIC keyboard layouts
- automatic highlighting of Shift / Alt-Gr key values
- automatic display of shift state
- customizable background color or image for normal & down state
- popup version TAdvPopupTouchKeyboard that can automatically follow focus control
- method to load & save keyboard layouts
- keys can have text or images
- different keys can have different colors
- multicharacter shortcuts can be assigned to keys
What's new & improved
- Improved tab key handling
- Improved arrow key handling
Feb 26, 2008 : UPDATE:
TMS ASP.NET
Component Pack v2.6.0.0 released
Over 60 feature-packed ASP.NET components including grid, menus, calendar,
datepicker, OutlookBar, HTML editor and much more...
What's new in v2.6.0.0
- New : support for Visual Studio 2008
- Various smaller improvements & fixes



Feb 26, 2008 : NEW :
Article on OLE Automation & Flexcel
Feb 22, 2008 : UPDATE :
TAdvSmartMessageBox v1.1
Add inobtrusive user messages to your applications

Features:
- Show informative messages to users without interrupting users
- Messages can appear for minimum duration after which messages automatically
disappear by keyboard & mouse events
- Messages can show HTML formatted text and include images. Full information
about supported HTML can be found here
- Messages can appear in various ways and at various positions, relative
to screen, relative to form
- Highly configurable appearance of messages
- Includes standard Office 2003 / Office 2007 message styles
What's new & improved:
- New : Hide method added on message
- New : Visible property added on message
- New : MessageVisible added on TAdvSmartMessageBox
Feb 22, 2008 : UPDATE:
TMS Advanced Toolbars & Menus v3.5.4.0
Office 2007 style ribbon bar + Office 2003 docking toolbars & menus in one.


What's new & improved in v3.5.4.0:
- New : TStickyMenuItem isControlItem style added to have a menu item
with only a control
- New : method ArrangeToolBars added in TAdvDockPanel to programmatically auto
arrange toolbars in the dockpanel
- New : property SubItemHeight added in TAdvPreviewMenuItem to have different
heights in different submenus
- Improved : AddAdvToolBar function assigns styler automatically
- Fixed : TAdvToolBarContainer transparency issue
Download
sample EXE demo
Article on
getting started with TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus
Article on
using the TAdvStickyPopupMenu
Feb 22, 2005 : UPDATE :
TMS ToolPanels v1.4.3
- New : AdvToolPanelTab.Panels.Move method added
- Improved : handling of destroying a TAdvToolPanel
- Improved : sequence of programmatically setting items Locked
- Fixed : issue with tab width/height with runtime created panels
- Fixed : issue with panel position initialization
Feb 22, 2008 : UPDATE:
TMS IntraWeb Component Pack Pro
v3.3.1.1 & TMS IntraWeb Component Pack Pro
Script Edition
v3.3.1.1
Over 70 components
for feature-rich RAD web
application development with Delphi & C++Builder
What's new & improved in v3.3.1.1:
- New : support for IntraWeb 9.0.32 release
- Fixed : issue in TIWAdvWebGrid with detail row height in Firefox
- Fixed : issue in TIWMultiColumnComboBox with editing text
Feb 20, 2008 :
UPDATE:
Flexcel for .NET 4.8.0.1
The most comprehensive, fastest, flexible & feature rich native
Excel file handling & XLS, PDF, PNG, HTML, ... report generator
for .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 & CF1.1, CF 2.0.

Sample of XLS file previewer with full
graphics support

Sample of PDF export with Excel
graphics included
What's new & improved in v4.8:
Jan 14, 2008 : UPDATE :
TAdvDBLookupComboBox v1.6
-
New: PDF signing
-
New: APIMate tool, convert existing Excel files to Flexcel API calls
- Improved: HTML generation with support for exporting headers / footers
- Misc: Various small fixes & code improvements
Jan
14, 2008 : UPDATE:
TMS Component Pack v4.6 released
Over 280 TMS productivity components for Delphi and C++Builder in one
money and time saving pack
What's new & improved:
- Update : Latest TAdvStringGrid v4.0.0.0
- Update : Latest TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus v3.0.7
- Update : Lots of smaller extensions & fixes in various components
Jan 14, 2008 : UPDATE :
TMS Grid Pack v3.5.0.0
Feature-packed high productivity grids for
Delphi 5,6,7,2005,2006,2007 & C++Builder 5,6,2006,2007
What's new and improved:
- Contains all new features & improvements in TAdvStringGrid v4.0.0.0
& descending grids
Jan 14, 2008 : UPDATE :
TMS TAdvMemo v2.1.3.11
Syntax highlighting / codefolding memo, DB-memo, code snippet list for
Delphi 5,6,7,2005,2006,2007
VCL + VCL.NET &
C++Builder 5,6,2006,2007
- New : public property ClearType added
- Improved : GetSelText speed improvement for older Delphi versions
- Improved : Faster Lines.LoadFromStream, Lines.Text access
- Fixed : issue with setting TopLine when VisibleLineCount > LinesCount
- Various smaller fixes & code improvements

Jan 14, 2008 : UPDATE :
TWebUpdate v2.0.3.4
Automatic application updates via Internet or Intranet FTP, HTTP or
network file transfer with Windows Vista UAC handling support
- New : support for Hungarian, Czech, Swedish & Polish language added
- New : parameter InitPath added to DoUpdate method to automatically initialize
current directory to app EXE
- New : method WebUpdateWizard.CloseWizard added
- Improved : logging
- Improved : cleanup of file WUPDATE.INI properly handled
- Various smaller improvements & fixes
Jan 14, 2008 : UPDATE:
TAdvOfficePager v1.4.0.1
Office 2007 style page control with smooth gradients and glow effect on tab
buttons

What's new & improved:
- New : initialization of theme at design time
- Fixed : issue with copy & paste at design time
Jan 14, 2008 : UPDATE :
TAdvOutlookList v1.5.3.0
Outlook style list view control
- Built-in automatic grouping on columns
- Automatic sorting with sorting for text, numeric, date, checkbox,
custom ...
type columns
- Possibility to show a column in a preview pane
- Drag & drop between groups in the control or between multiple
AdvOutlookList components
- Various column styles including checkbox, image, progresss bar,
hyperlink, HTML text
- HTML rendering with images, hyperlinks of text in columns (see
mini HTML documentation for information about
all possibilities)
What's new in v1.5.3.0:
- New : keyboard lookup ignores HTML tags
- New : exposed PreviewSettings.Height
- New : event OnGroupExpand/OnGroupCollaps added
- Improved : unselect behaviour in single select mode
- Fixed : issue with hiding columns
- Fixed : issue with OnGroupClick event during expand/collaps

Advanced DB-aware multicolumn lookup combobox
- New : GridHeaderAutoSize
property added
- New : TitleOrientation added
- New : TitleAlignment, TitleVerticalAlignment added
- New : OnGridSelectCell event added
Jan 3, 2008 : NEW:
SharpFileSwap v1.2
Free expert with source code for easy & fast keyboard switching between
files in a project in Delphi 7, 2006, 2007
What's new & improved:
- New : Delphi 2007 support
Dec 17, 2007 : UPDATE:
TMS Instrumentation Workshop v1.4.5.0
Over 80
Instrumentation controls for Delphi and C++Builder
What's new & improved:
- New : TickTextFormat property added in TvrScale
- New : event OnGetTickText added in TvrScale
- New : CaptionXOffset, CaptionYOffset added in TvrAngularMeter
- New : exposed events OnClick, OnDblClick, OnMouseDown, OnMouseMove, OnMouseUp
in TvrBorder
- New : mousewheel support added in TvrSlider
- New : OnChanged event added in TvrSlider
- New : TargetControl property added in TvrKeyPad
Dec 17, 2007 : UPDATE:
TMS Async32 v1.3.8.0
Asynchronous
serial communications made easy for your Delphi & C++Builder
applications
What's new & improved:
- New : Added UARTWriteBufUsed, UARTReadBufUsed functions in TVaComm
Dec 15, 2007 : UPDATE:
TAdvOfficeTabSet & TAdvOfficeMDITabSet v1.3.0.0
Office 2007 / 2003 style tabset & automatic tabbed MDI tabset component

Create tabbed MDI applications like Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0 with
just a single line of code !

What's new:
- New : Optional different tab appearance per tab
- New : Optional control on close button per tab
- New : left, right or left/right rounded/triangular tabs
Dec 14, 2007 : NEW :
TAdvTrackBar / TAdvRangeSlider v1.2
Feature-rich and highly configurable trackbar with Office 2003 / Office
2007 styles

- Office 2003, 2007 style trackbar /
range slider
- Includes optional + / - buttons
- Extensive control over appearance
- Gallery with various predefined trackbar styles including capability to add
custom style to the gallery
- Fully configurable background, slider, thumb, buttons with extensive
color config or customization with images
- Standard or custom drawn tickmarks with support for image tickmarks, rotated
text tickmarks etc..
- Configurable slider with appearance for completed / uncompleted part
- Slider is configurable as rating control
- Track hints & optional label to display value
- Compatible with TAdvFormStyler to automatically adapt color to Office
2003 / Office 2007 styles
Dec 14, 2007 : NEW :
TAdvDateTimePicker / TAdvDBDateTimePicker v1.1
Datepicker and time picker integrated in one component

Features:
- directly edit a TDateTime with one single component
- uses XP or Vista theme on Windows XP / Vista
- compatible with TDateTimePicker
- DB-aware & not DB-aware version
Nov 26, 2007 : NEW :
TMS Workflow Studio v1.0
Delphi VCL framework for Business Process Management (BPM)
Workflow Studio is a
Delphi VCL framework for Business Process Management (BPM). With
Workflow Studio you can easily add workflow and BPM capabilities to your
application,
by allowing you or
your end-user to create workflow definitions and running them.
Features:
-
Design workflow definitions visually in a diagram
- Run the workflow definitions
- Manage tasks generated by the workflows
Take advantage of introduction price offers now till
January 31, 2008!
Oct 24, 2007 : UPDATE :
TAdvGlowButton v1.81.1
Office 2007 / Vista style button with smooth state transitioning



Features:
- Office 2007 / Windows Vista
style glowing button with complex gradients
- Soft button state transition painting & antialiased button text rendering support
- Main caption and Notes text in different font
- PNG with alpha transparency + bitmap + ImageList button glyph support for normal, hot &
disabled states
- Bottom or right aligned dropdown button support
- Full color & gradient customization support
- Full Unicode button caption support
What's new:
- New : Notes text and NotesFont
- Fixed : issue with Actions
- Various smaller fixes & code improvements
Oct 24, 2007 :
UPDATE:
TMS ASP.NET WebPlanner v2.7.5.0
Feature-rich ASP.NET Components for scheduling web applications with
Microsoft Ajax support
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TMS ASP.NET
WebPlanner is a first-class ASP.NET control with support for Microsoft
APS.NET Ajax for implementing a broad
range of planning and scheduling solutions. Whether a project requires
the creation of a single-user Personal Information Management (PIM)
application or time planning for multiple resources such as hotel rooms,
rental cars, and university courses, the WebPlanner provides an open,
highly-configurable interface that will suit the project's needs.
Because WebPlanner is browser-based, it is perfect for applications
supporting users connected via an intranet or the Internet. TMS ASP.NET
WebPlanner is available for Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and Delphi 2005, 2006, 2007
& Turbo
Delphi for .NET
What's new & improved in v2.7.5.0:
- New : WaitList built-in databinding capability added
- New : Template support for MonthPlanner added
- New : EditType Template added (when EditType != Template only the
ViewEventTemplate is shown)
- Improved : rendering speed of completion
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