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QShape Designer
Nowadays there are a lot of different tab shapes / balloon shapes / etc. To provide you a way to create your own shapes for tabbuttons, tabstrips, balloons or other shaped windows, we created QShape Designer. With this tool you can easily design vector based shapes in your own style. You can define lines and roundings (beziers). With …
Control Customizing
All the controls in QIOS DevSuite look as they should without any configuration. However: You can fully customize every control by setting the borders, background styles and images, image-alignments, paddings, margins, delays and much more to make your applications look the way you want. The controls in the QiosDevSuite library usually contain one or more Appearance and Configuration …
Colors & Themes
Many Control library providers implement gives you the option to define one color to an element (for example, a panel border). So if a user changes its theme, it is your responsibility to iterate through the complete list of colors and change it. Windows XP & Vista themes To make this process a lot easier …
Masks
QDevSuite uses image masks allowing the user to create images that have dynamic colors. Images such as the depersonalize button of the QMainMenu or an expand button of the QExplorerBar use an image mask. An image mask has a background color and a foreground color that depend on the QColorScheme. In the Properties window you see …
Notify Icon
A NotifyIcon is a component that shows an icon in the system tray of the start menu. Qios.DevSuite has full support to work with a NotifyIcon. QContextMenu To add a QContextMenu to a NotifyIcon simply drop and configure a QContextMenu component on the form and set the QContextMenu property of the NotifyIcon to the newly …
Base Controls
Besides the list of Controls presented on the Controls page, Qios.DevSuite presents some advanced base Controls that you can use to develop your own Controls: QContainerControlBase, QContainerControl and QControl QContainerControlBase QContainerControlBase is the base for every container Control in Qios.DevSuite. Unlike the default Microsoft .NET ContainerControl, It lets you use the Non-Client-Area of a window. …
There is more…
You might want to download the full QDevSuite package or the DemoZone application, for free, to check it all out yourself and see that there is much more in it! For an overview of just the most important features you go to the Features page. For an overview of the controls you go here. Convince yourself in the DemoZone The DemoZone is just an application that you download …