ThemeEngine is a library of components which allows to change visual appearance and behavior of your application with use of the powerful set of tools including visual components, convenient designers, easy-to-use non-visual components, the optimized graphic algorithms and a set of ready themes. ThemeEngine can add themes to forms, to the menu and to the elements of the management. Handreds stable easy to use components and thousands free skins

• Complete support of themes for MS Windows XP. The necessary theme is easily chosen among the thousand ones available on the Internet (www.themexp.org). ThemeEngine can save these themes in the compiled application.

• Handreds stable and easy to use components and free themes

• Includes converter from msstyle file format to native ThemeEngine's theme (*.theme file)

• ThemeEngine allows to use more than one theme in your application, so that you can receive a very beautiful and interesting interface.

• The emulation of the open, understandable and properly described MS ThemeAPI (uxtheme.dll) easily allows to add ThemeEngine support to your own components or the components of other developers.

• ThemeEngine includes an easy-to-use non-visual component which can automatically adjust the TColor properties of any components, depending on the loaded theme. In this way you can easily adapt any components to the new interface.

• About 70 groups of various animation effects with thousand possible combinations that can be used both with ThemeEngine components and in your own development.

• ThemeEngine supplements to standard forms such new features as: gravitation, additional system buttons, minimizing in the system tray, the adjusted system menu, new styles, animation, buffering and many other things.

• ThemeEngine contains all necessary components from the standard palette and besides it contains a big set of additional components.

• The tool for converting projects, allows to add quickly and easily the theme support to your application .

• The complete support MDI of the interface, both for the main form and for MDI clients.

• Support flickers free scrollbars and borders on all standard control, and many thirdparty controls

• Big coollection of DB-Aware controls

• Completely compatible with all versions of Windows 95/98/2000/XP/2003/Me/Vista and NT 4.0 without necessity of using COMCTL32.DLL

Introduction

Introduction