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We're thrilled to announce the release of TMS AI Studio, a revolutionary new product that brings the power of AI directly into your Delphi development workflow. Building on TMS Software's tradition of innovat...

The Office 2007 ribbon GUI has sophisticated capabilities to resize controls depending on the size of the window & its toolbars. A button can have 3 different size states: glyph size (bsGlyph size) label size (bsLabel size) large size (b...

Introduction An eye-catching feature of the new Office 2007 environment is the round button that sits in the top right corner of the window from where a menu can be shown that resembles the old File menu. What makes this menu a little diffe...

Introduction In article 5, we've introduced the basic API to use the new Vista TaskDialog from Delphi. The basic API however only allows to do marginally more than the good old MessageBox. To get more out of the new TaskDialog, Vista exposes the ...

Introduction In Windows Vista the common File Open and File Save dialogs have got a facelift as well. Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't make the new common file dialogs 100% backwards compatible with the existing GetOpenFileName, GetSaveFileName A...

Introduction Windows Vista introduces a new dialog to communicate with the user, called TaskDialog. In its most simple form, a TaskDialog is just a nicer looking MessageBox equivalent with options to customize the title and to add a description an...

TMS Advanced Office Graphics Control Pack offers a range of controls that seamingless integrate with the Office 2007 / Office 2003 toolbars. It includes components for most common toolbar actions such as font, fontsize, color, textcolor, bruhstyle...

Over the past couple of years, appearances as these from Windows XP, Office 2003 / Office 2007, Visual Studio .NET and now Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Terminal styles have set standards for how an application should look. The techniques for definin...

Office 2007 hints All controls that are part of the TMS Advanced toolbars & menus feature an extended Office 2007 style hint. Office 2007 hints are more sophisticated than regular Delphi hints. An office 2007 hint has a title, an optional pict...

TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus support Office 2003 style docking toolbars & menus as well as Office 2007 ribbon style toolbars. Building applications with Office 2003 style docked toolbars starts by using TAdvDockPanel which is the componen...