3D Control Magic for .NET

3D Control Magic for .NET will give you the possibility to use new
3D Control Magic (Ctl3dMagic.dll) is a useful and reliable set of 9 .NET controls which will give you the possibility to use new "look & feel" controls inside your applications; creating skinned applications using these controls is really easy: each of the contained controls can use a variety of shapes, surfaces, special effects, textures, bitmaps, animations, sounds, colors and fonts.

The strength of this product is the fact that it doesn't make use of predefined bitmaps, created with expensive graphical applications, in order to render the controls surface: it calculates the surfaces 3D rendering using a proprietary algorithm whose quality cannot be found in any of the few competitors on the market: this will allow to save time and money each time you will have to make a customization of your applications; furthermore, thanks to the use of predefined "templates", you can change all the settings of a button with a single line of code during the application execution.

3D Control Magic can be used as an alternative to some standard Windows controls of common use: inside the Tutorials section of this help file you will find a lot of tutorials that will help you getting the best from this product.

3D Control Magic is fully UNICODE compliant, so you will have the possibility to use it with the various languages (such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.) that make use of double-byte characters.

Main features of 3D Control Magic for NET:

Buttons caching system

Custom shaped buttons

Pictures, textures and sounds support

Surface coloring in different button states

Multiple texts support (up to 9 at the same time)

Cells support

Support for Radio buttons and Checkboxes

Anti-aliasing for button surface borders and texts

New button surfaces (Aqua, Plastic, Gel, Neon, etc.)

3D linear gradients

Text effects: halo, transparency, double width, solid background, rotation angle

Support for Labels, GroupBoxes, PictureBoxes, Enhanced Standard Radio buttons and Enhanced Standard Checkboxes

Form Shaper control

Better animations management

Transparency support for button's surface, cells and pictures

Full version of 3D Button Visual Editor


What's New in This Release:

Improved the rendering speed.

Reduced the amount of memory required by the button caching system, with the possibility to disable the caching system itself.

Final application .exe files are now far smaller in size.

Source code of the container form is now far smaller in size.

Added "strong name" support that allows the registration of the component assembly inside the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

Added compatibility with Visual Studio .NET 2005

Added transparent GIF and PNG formats for button image export.

Added support for independent cells containing text and pictures.

Added support for lighting directions.

Added support for alpha channel transparency.

Added the possibility to perform custom graphic rendering over the control's surface.

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