Fastform

Fastform is a true resize and form design control!
Fastform is a true resize and form design control. All you have to do is to simply drop a Fastform control onto your form and easily control the look and operation of your VB forms with TRUE resize up OR down in any resolution.

Absolutely NO Coding necessary! Fastform is NOT a container. In fact, Fastform can be added to existing projects with no additional code or changes to the current project layout.

For enhanced design and enhanced form effects, Fastform contains full property control over every aspect of your form resize and design. Take individual control of every aspect of your resize needs for both controls & fonts. Add Gradient backgrounds or tile a picture. Fastform gives YOU full control over every aspect of form resize and functionality.

For experienced developers, properties may be set at design time or during runtime. Some of the other properties include form open and close transitions, fit to form picture, tile picture, multi-colored gradients and Printform independent resolution printing.

Here is what VBXtra's had to say about Fastform:
"Much of the functionality you have only dreamed of before is now available!" and "A must-have component for enhanced form design!"

Main features of Fastform:

Form design with simple point and click functionality. Absolutely no coding required.

True drop and run resize. Add to existing projects or with new development.

Add Fastform to existing forms.

Full-featured form design properties including multi-colored gradients, screen open and close transitions, tile picture and more.

Special Effects - Pictures and Backgrounds - You can also Fit, Tile, or Center a Forms Picture automatically.

Works with 3rd party products and many user controls.

Settings allowing creating of screens supporting non-standard resolutions and sizes.

Set minimum and maximum window size.

Tell Fastform a percentage of screen you want to use and it will resize the form to that percentage of the screen in ANY resolution.

Automatic scaling of controls, lines, shapes, graphics, and fonts.

Automatically scale forms to unknown target computer screen resolutions.

Automatically produce professional looking Gradient Fill effects on your form. *NEW* Now Fastform sports numerous new gradient styles including two new styles including Linear and Radial. We enhanced gradients further by also allowing you to select up to 3 different colors to transition between.

Automatically keep your form on top of all other forms on the screen.

Automatically replace fonts with fully scalable fonts to allow you full control over the size of your controls without losing text.

Resize Delay - use to speed up process when you have a lot of controls.

Automatically center your form in X and Y dimensions.

Automatically save your forms window size, position and state.

Selectively exclude controls from the scaling functions.

Easily scale graphics manually, as well as automatically.

Form Centering - You can center the form in both X & Y dimensions without needing to know the target computers screen resolution.

Resolution Independent Form Dimensions - You can set the X & Y dimensions of the form to a percentage of the screens dimensions without needing to know the dimensions of the target computers screen.

Graphic Scaling / Re-sizing - Graphics can be re-sized to suit the re-sized controls they belong to. They can be re-sized manually or automatically. Controls that use ImageList controls to hold their graphics can also have their graphics re-sized. This helps on forms that have a lot of controls to re-size.

New Method of Re-sizing - You can set your form to delay re sizing until the mouse button is released, rather than re sizing automatically when the mouse is moved.

Border Scaling / Re-sizing - The BorderWidth property of controls like Lines and Shapes can be set to re-size when your form re-sizes

Supports Controls added, removed, moved, or sized at run-time - Fastform will automatically include new, moved, or sized controls at run-time, including them into subsequent form operations..

Prepares Form for printing - You can set how a form will be prepared ready for printing, stating scaling methods and units, sizes etc. completely independent of your visible screen resolution.

Methods exposed for User to use - The most useful methods that Fastform uses in it is automatic operation have been exposed for manual use by the user to allow special customization.

Special Effects - Wipes and transitions - You can apply special "wipes" to forms when opening and closing them.


Requirements of Fastform:

Visual Basic 6


What's New in This Release:

New Feature Added: UpdateControl method to update a control's properties that are stored by FastForm. This can be used specifically for picture type controls where the picture is changed after Form_Load.

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