Total Access Components 2007: New Features

The world's most popular collection of custom controls for Microsoft Access is now available for Microsoft Office Access 2007. Total Access Components 2007 has a number of significant enhancements from previous versions, including:

Supports Users of Microsoft Access 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000

Total Access Components 2007 supports all Access versions between 2000 and 2007. This means you can add these enhancements to your databases and all your users can benefit across multiple Access versions.

The latest version supports placement in Access 2007 forms and reports including MDB, ADP, and the new ACCDB database formats.

New Cursor Control

With the addition of the Cursor control, Total Access Components 2007 now offers 30 ActiveX controls. The Cursor control lets you specify a custom graphic as the windows cursor when you want an alternative to the standard arrow or hourglass.

Significant Enhancements to Existing Controls

Many of the controls are enhanced with more features, a more modern appearance to support the look of Windows XP and Vista. These include:

Menu Enhancements

Icon Menu

The Icon Menu control makes it easy to add icon menus like the one used in Outlook. Several new features were added:

• Word wrapping on button text

• Customizable font, style, fore color, and back color

• Supports Windows XP styles and themes

Popup Menu

The Popup Menu control adds customized right-click context menus to your forms. This control now supports Windows XP styles/themes, and allows customization of each menu item’s font, style, and color. You can even add your own icon for each item.

Visual Enhancements

Analog and Digital Clocks

The analog and digital Clock control displays clocks in a variety of styles. These new features were added:

• Support for background images
• Option to specify the clock time
• Support for additional hand styles
• Ability to show or hide Hour ticks
• Support for Windows XP styles/themes, and smoother lines for a sleeker appearance

Enhanced Command Button

The Enhanced Button control is a command button with a variety of text effects, bitmap, and toggle styles. This control includes a new option to display a Hyperlink Hand cursor when hovering over the button.

Gauges

The Gauge Control displays information in a graphical format that is easy to understand. This control now supports background images so you can provide your own picture for the dial.
 

Scrolling Marquees

The Marquee control displays text scrolling left, up, right, or down. This control now supports word wrapping and Windows XP styles/themes.

Progress Meter

The Progress Meter control provides visual feedback showing values relative to a range or % of completion. This control now supports Windows XP styles/themes, and allows larger values.

Rotated Text

The Text Effects control displays rotated text with custom display styles. This control now supports word wrapping, options for text location, and Windows XP styles/themes.

Form Design Enhancements

Cursor Control

The new Cursor control lets you specify a custom graphic as the windows cursor when you want an alternative to the standard arrow or hourglass.

Notes Control

The Notes control adds popup notes to your forms to simplify viewing and editing memo fields. This control now supports Windows XP styles/themes and a variety of text locations.

Timer Control

The Timer control allows you to add multiple timers to forms. This control now supports larger Interval values.

Window System Enhancements

Clipboard Control

The Clipboard control lets you invoke the Windows Clipboard without using Windows API calls. This control is enhanced to support copying and pasting bitmaps, in addition to text.

Common Dialog Control

The Common Dialog control lets you easily invoke Windows common dialogs from your application. This control supports Windows XP and Vista system commands and options.

The help file feature of this control now supports Compressed HTML Help (*.CHM) files in addition to the traditional *.HLP help files.

Additional Enhancements

Many other documentation and enhancements were made to improve performance and stability. To help you get started right away, the Sample database is redesigned to provide examples of every property, method, and event of each Total Access Components control, A new 158 page, professionally printed user manual is also available.

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