Press Release Summary = ActiveX control to put your software icon in system tray area
Press Release Body = What is ASTC?
ASTC is an ActiveX control which provide the most System Tray Functions at developing time. ASTC offer something for every programmer,showing you software icon in system tray is an easy task but can became a nightmare especially when you try to use the advanced features like tooltip balloon ,animating the icon and using the subclassing ,that\'s why ASTC is an Advanced System Tray Control.
ASTC contains all the function you can imagine about system tray programming so you can focus in your software idea in which you intend to write as well as you will be able to avoid using the Native win32 API calls to handle system tray programming. With ASTC you can easily show or hide your Application icon whenever you want ,you will be able to animate the icon whenever you want , you will be able to handle all the events that may happen to the icon like right button up or left button up etc...,ASTC also can handle a very nice feature which is the tooltip balloon given your application a professional looking.
ASTC is US$20 shareware. It is available from the CprinGold Software web site and all major shareware download sites.
System Requirements: Any IDE under MS windows that support ActiveX controls
Features * Show-Hide the icon in system Tray area. * Show the icon in animation state. * Assign a tooltip for the icon. * Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible]. * Show a balloon tool tip even displaying on win9x . * Change the icon and tooltip in run time. * Ability to assign a popup menu for a particular event happen to the icon even displaying on win9x. * Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the icon popup menu will be closed. * Show more than one icon in the system tray. * The installer package contain sample code of using the control in the following languages Vb6.0, VC++6.0, VB.Net, VC#.NET, VC++.NET and VJ#.NET
Some ASTC Features Described in Detail
The Tooltip balloon feature enable the developer to show a balloon in which its arrow pointing to the icon in the system tray,with this feature you can return a the application state to the user or notify the user with a new event had occurred given your application a professional looking also the developer can display this balloon tooltip even display in win9x.
The Animateing Feature enable the developer to animate his icon in the system tray area ,first the developer must insert the animation icons in a ImageList control version 6.0 then assign pass the ImageList control to StartAnimation method,no need to worry about Animateing system tray icon at all because ASTC will handle this, when the developer want to stop the animation , simply he or she call StopAnimateing method.
Another feature of ASTC that save the developer time is that tracking the popup menu in which the developer had assign to an event related to the icon like right button up,what do you mean about this? in the normal cases using API function when you assign a pop up menu for the right button up,the pop up menu doesn\'t disappear unless the user click an item in it, ASTC solve this problem without using mouse global hook by tracking the popup menu and close it whenever the user left click outside the menu.
Availability
ASTC 1.0 is available now, and may be downloaded through our Web site at
About CprinGold Software
CprinGold Software is an online software development company,our main market is small Internet development teams and individuals who need low cost effective solutions and personalized support services. This is exactly what we are committed to providing.
CprinGold Software distributes its products under the shareware principles: try before you buy and minimal or no marketing costs. As a result shareware costs a fraction of the price of most other commercial software.
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