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12 months top priority technical support by email
12 months free upgrades to any new major version
Full source code
License of use (other than evaluation of the software)
Royalty free applications distribution
MMX / SSE assembler optimized effects
Free technical support by email
Free upgrades to any new minor version
Designed for minimum footprint
Supports Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000,XP, 2003 and Vista
Win32 packages for Delphi 5/6/7/2005/2006/2007, C++ Builder 5/6/2006/2007
Available components
TFormContainer: full featured container that allows to dynamically insert forms as child windows
TFCEmbeddedForm: not really a component, but a custom form that you can inherit from when creating forms that will be easily embedded into a FormContainer
TEffectsPanel: panel enhanced with our backgrounds technology (translucency, textures...)
TEffectsGroupBox: group box enhanced with our backgrounds technology (translucency, textures...)
TFormTransitions: enhances a form by making use of transitions and animations to show or hide it and adding rich backgrounds
TTEAnimationList: allows creation and configuration of the animation effects at design-time
TTransitionList: allows visual creation and configuration of the transition effects at design time
TTEImage: shows pictures with native support for transitions, both synchronous and asynchronous (threaded)
TTETransitionExport: transitions export component
Transition features
Flicker free
High performance
17 different families with hundreds of different cool effects
Form show/hide transition effect
Transitions are not limited to pictures: any child control or partial area of a control can use a transition when it's being showed, hidden or its visual appearance is being modified some way (for example, changing a picture, color, text, etc).
Asynchronous (threaded) picture transitions are supported by the TTEImage control
Transition export component is available
You can set transition duration in milliseconds
Design and runtime visual editor with optional autopreview
Mouse and keyboard optional abortion.
Background painting features
Solid color layer: opaque or transparent
Background form layer: uses a form to define complex and/or dynamic backgrounds
Picture layer: allows textures and picture centering or stretching
Glass layer: 256 levels of color translucency
Background settings can be individually inherited from parent for easy of use and resource optimization
FormContainer additional features
Form embedding
Lots of child form positioning options (centering included)
Optional scrolling
Remembers embedded forms history for easy wizard or explorer-like interfaces
Allows runtime embedded forms data persistence for easy backwards form navigation
You can use standard forms or our custom form TFCEmbeddedForm

Limitations

• You have to follow a few simple guidelines to correctly show your forms within a FormContainer.
• There are palette conflicts if you use transitions in 256 colors video mode and the source and destination images use different palettes. Set PassSetting to tePaletteDependent to avoid them, or use the same logical palette in all your forms (only those that need a logical palette, of course).
• Some controls can not be correctly rendered in transition or translucency effects, but you can fine-tune them by using RegisterTEControl or modifying them (if you have their source code or the control's author does it for you). If you want to make your components compatible with ours please contact us and we will send you information about our compatibility interface.
• Form opening and closing transitions are not supported for layered windows.
• Form closing transitions are not supported in Window 95, 98, Me and NT.
• Form opening and closing transitions are only partially supported in Windows Vista when Desktop Composition technology (aero interface) is active. All closing transitions will be replaced by the alphablend transition, as is the case with opening transitions if the form is not borderless.
• A translucent control is not automatically refreshed when a control in its background changes. You'll need to refresh it yourself by code at runtime. At design time you can hide and reshow the form, or just move the translucent control, for example.
• Translucent forms are only possible if the forms are embedded into a FormContainer. In other words, translucency is only supported for controls that have a parent.

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