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- Grid-Gantt (Host) The ExG2Host is an extension of the ExG2antt ( Exontrol's Grid-Gantt component ) with full database support ( ADO, DAO, XML). In other words, the ExG2Host loads and saves automatically the host's data (including the hierarchy) to one or more databases. You can map a data field from the data-source, to a property of one object in the host/gantt control, and the control automatically updates the field when it is required. In the same manner, you can automatically save the control's layout, so next time the control is running it automatically get displayed the same way as it was closed.
- Gantt The Exontrol's ExGantt component is our approach to create timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts). Gantt chart is a time-phased graphic display of activity durations. Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars. Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars. The exGantt component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- Pivot The Exontrol's eXPivot tool is our approach to provide data summarization, as a pivot table. A pivot-table can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. The user sets up and changes the summary's structure by dragging and dropping fields graphically.
- Calendar The ExCalendar library contains two components, simple version and drop-down version that allow you to select a date with a nice GUI. You can select the date between 1/1/100 and 12/31/9999, Both versions support images, colors, font attributes, tooltips for any date.
- Scheduler The eXSchedule tool is our approach to provide scheduling of appointments into your application.
- Grid Exontrol's new eXGrid control an easy-to-implement tree-grid control, provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features that distinguish it from other grids. The eXGrid is a multi-purpose data visualization system that can display information as a tree, a grid or list, or a combination of both - in either data-bound or unbound mode. This unique synergy between a traditional grid and a traditional treeview allows you to create cutting-edge and visually appealing application interfaces for your end-users.
- ICalendar The ExICalendar library implements the ICalendar data format, according with Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification, RFC 5545. The iCalendar data format represents exchanging calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, independent of any particular calendar service or protocol. The iCalendar format is suitable as an exchange format between applications or systems. The format is defined in terms of a MIME content type.
- ExCRD The Exontrol's Custom Row Designer ( exCRD ) is a WYSWYG tool to build new layouts for cells/nodes, items/rows or columns/fields. The exCRD tool generates CRD strings from the layout you built. The syntax of CRD strings is designed to be easy to build, change and read. Using CRD strings is powerful than preformatted card view, group view formats, nested bands, and so on, since you are free to define the full layout of the cell/node, item/row or a column/field.
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Products
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COM Components
- Suite Complete Developer Solution. The eXSuite provides a series of powerful and easy-to-use combo-list-tree-grid controls, gantt, gauge or chart controls to display your data, and much more. Includes more than 60 components, with over 300 objects, 11,000 functions, and more than 5,250,000 lines of source code...
- Agent The ExDialog control, similar with the Microsoft Office Assistant, is a new type of control that allows attaching pictures to your form or dialog. The control lets you add interactive personalities to your application or Web site.
- Button The Exontrol's exButton control is designed to enhance your Windows-based programs by offering the look-and-feel of past and present GUI design elements. The control provides predefined button skins for Windows XP, Windows 95/98, and Mac 8.x buttons. Create your own skins for your buttons in minutes, using a WYSYWG skin builder. The ability to specify everything that control needs like graphical objects, transparent skins, HTML captions as simple text makes the exButton one of the most wanted button control on the market. The exButton control easily replaces the Standard Windows button by supporting most of the same properties, methods and events. In addition, you have complete control over how the button is to be displayed.
- CalcEdit Enrich your application with an easy-to-use edit control that supports arithmetic operations. Get results on the fly. The result is displayed as the user types the expression. The control handles double constants and arithmetic operations like +( addition ), - ( subtraction ), / ( division ), or * ( multiply ). The control is fully written in C++ using ATL. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC or else.
- Calculator Exontrol's ExCalc component provides calculator features to your application. The component provides implementation for basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. In addition, you can configure the layout of the calculator the way you want, including new mathematical operations. The component provides flat and drop down version, so you can have the calculator into a drop down field too.
- Calendar The ExCalendar library contains two components, simple version and drop-down version that allow you to select a date with a nice GUI. You can select the date between 1/1/100 and 12/31/9999, Both versions support images, colors, font attributes, tooltips for any date.
- CascadeTree The eXCascadeTree component is a multiple-columns-tree-view component that uses miller columns visualization to display your data. The Miller columns (also known as Cascading Lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
- ComboBox The eXComboBox represents some of the most advanced combobox technology available in the components marketplace. A combo box is a commonly-used GUI tool. It is a combination of a drop-down list or list box and a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly into the control or choose from the list of existing options.
- ContextMenu The eXContextMenu component displays and handles a context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu). A context menu is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.
- DataView Exontrol's new exRecord control is a container component that displays a set of editors added manually or bounded to a table in a database.
- Edit Add to your applicaton an easy-to-use edit control that supports built-in HTML format, and syntax highlighting as well. You can define your own keywords and expressions using HTML tags. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC, VB or anything else, and does not subclass the system's EDIT window class.
- ExplorerBar The ExplorerBar component, an accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Windows XP Explorer Bar, provides an intuitive user-interface when large amounts of information need to be presented.The object model is rich and intuitive.
- ExplorerTree Add structured navigation functionality to your applications. The ExplorerTree component adds navigation functionality to your applications, it brings simple information structuring and easy application navigation.
- Expression The Exontrol's eXPression component is a syntax-editor that helps you to define, view, edit and evaluate expressions.
- FileView Provide rich display of file and folder information from within your applications. ExFileView is an ActiveX component for creating Windows Explorer-style functionality. The ExFileView simulates a FolderView control as well.
- FolderView Exontrol's new ExFolderView component provides a folder tree-list view which is identical with the left pane of your Windows Explorer.
- Gantt The Exontrol's ExGantt component is our approach to create timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts). Gantt chart is a time-phased graphic display of activity durations. Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars. Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars. The exGantt component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- Gauge The eXGauge / eXLayers library provides graphics capabilities to visually display and edit the amount, level, or contents of something. The view can show one or more layers, where each layer can display one or more transparent pictures, HTML captions which can be clipped, moved, rotated or combination of them, by dragging the mouse, rolling the mouse wheel, or using the keyboard.
- Grid Exontrol's new eXGrid control an easy-to-implement tree-grid control, provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features that distinguish it from other grids. The eXGrid is a multi-purpose data visualization system that can display information as a tree, a grid or list, or a combination of both - in either data-bound or unbound mode. This unique synergy between a traditional grid and a traditional treeview allows you to create cutting-edge and visually appealing application interfaces for your end-users.
- Grid-Gantt The Exontrol's eXG2antt component is an editable tree-grid component that includes Gantt chart features. The ex(G)rid-ex(G)antt, shortly exG2antt or ex2Gantt, combines the exGrid and exGantt components in a standalone component. The exG2antt library lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- Grid-Gantt (Host) The ExG2Host is an extension of the ExG2antt ( Exontrol's Grid-Gantt component ) with full database support ( ADO, DAO, XML). In other words, the ExG2Host loads and saves automatically the host's data (including the hierarchy) to one or more databases. You can map a data field from the data-source, to a property of one object in the host/gantt control, and the control automatically updates the field when it is required. In the same manner, you can automatically save the control's layout, so next time the control is running it automatically get displayed the same way as it was closed.
- HTML Display and edit built-in HTML without relying on Internet Explorer. exHTML is a display/edit engine for our built-in HTML format. It is written from scratch in C++/C#. It does not rely on IE for rendering HTML, and its functionality is similar to a Web browser for display/edit purposes. exHTML can be used for the provision of extremely flexible user interfaces generated on demand. It can also function as a complex layout management system for text, controls, and graphics. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC, VB or anything else, and does not subclass the system's EDIT window class.
- ICalendar The ExICalendar library implements the ICalendar data format, according with Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification, RFC 5545. The iCalendar data format represents exchanging calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, independent of any particular calendar service or protocol. The iCalendar format is suitable as an exchange format between applications or systems. The format is defined in terms of a MIME content type.
- Label The Exontrol's eXLabel component provides HTML labels for your forms or dialogs.
- List Add an advanced List control to your application. The exList component displays and edit your tabular data. The exList component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
- ListBar The ExListBar component, an accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Outlook Bar, provides an intuitive user-interface when large amounts of information need to be presented. The ExListBar supports horizontal or vertical orientation. The object model is rich and intuitive.
- MaskEdit When you have several people entering data in your database, you can define how users must enter data in specific fields to help maintain consistency and to make your database easier to manage. For example, you can set an input mask for a form so that users can only enter telephone numbers in the Swedish format or addresses in the French format.
- Menu The ExMenu component is a complete new type of control that displays and handles more than a menu for your application. The ExMenu simulates menu bar, popup menu, options button, toolbar, pick list, and more. Make you application more intuitive using the ExMenu.
- Miller The eXMiller component is a file-folder-view component that uses miller columns visualization to display system folders and files. The Miller columns (also known as Cascading Lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
- NETHost The Exontrol's NETHost control allows you to use any Windows Form User Control (/NET framework) on your /COM windows / forms / dialogs.
- OrgChart The ExOrgChart component permits the totally automatic generation of organigrams. An organigram generally provides a clear picture of the hierarchical position of the various actors. The ExOrgChart control shows a hierarchical display of nodes, each one having an HTML caption, pictures and icons aligned to any side of the node.
- Pivot The Exontrol's eXPivot tool is our approach to provide data summarization, as a pivot table. A pivot-table can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. The user sets up and changes the summary's structure by dragging and dropping fields graphically.
- PopupMenu The ExPopupMenu component allows you to display and handle a shortcut menu (window popup menu) or a window's menu bar. The ExPopupMenu control contains also a MenuButton object that allows attaching a popup menu to a push button. Building the menu is more than intuitive because the control provides a WYSIWYG editor, at design time.
- Print The Exontrol ExPrint component is an advanced printing system specifically to bring your User Interface to the printed page. The ExPrint adds powerful print and preview capabilities to your forms, dialog boxes or other windows. The ExPrint component provides Print and Print Preview features for components like: exGrid, exTree, exList, exCalendar, exComboBox, exPropertiesList, exEdit, exFileView, exOrgChart and so on.
- PropertiesList The ExPropertiesList control (similar to the control used to manipulate properties in Visual Studio) provides an efficient, intuitive and visually compact way to handle data input with minimal coding and user interface design.
- RadialMenu The eXRadialMenu ( radial or pie menu) component is similar to the Microsoft.s OneNote radial menu with ability to customize the appearance and functionality. The component is designed using tree structure of tools and tool collections within the tools
- Ribbon The eXRibbon component, similar with the Microsoft Office's "Fluent User Interface", or Ribbon, allows you to display graphical control elements in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs.
- RolList Exontrol's new and innovative exRolList control handles and displays lists on an elliptic shape. The exRolList rotates the list to let items being visible, and so no scrolls are required. You never seen such of control so please take your time and check it. Your user interface will be rich, new and attractive.
- Scheduler The eXSchedule tool is our approach to provide scheduling of appointments into your application.
- ScrollBar The Exontrol's newly exScrollBar control simulates vertical or horizontal scroll bar, slider, track, volume or gauge controls.
- ShellView Exontrol's new ExShellView component provides a file list view which is identical with the right pane of your Windows Explorer.
- SkinBox Exontrol's new ExSkinBox offers you skinable message and input boxes that can display HTML format and custom images as well.
- Slider The Exontrol's eXSlider component allows you adding skinable sliders to your forms or dialogs.
- SplitBar The Exontrol's eXSplitBar component, helps you to automatically resizes the left/right or top/bottom components, while user drags the split bar to a new position. The splitter control is used to resize docked controls at run time. The splitter control is often used on forms with controls that have varying lengths of data to present, like Windows Explorer, whose data panes contain information of varying widths at different times.
- StatusBar Add a fuly customizable statusbar to your application. Features include: ability to layout the panels as you wish using the CRD strings, skinning, built-in HTML support, tooltip support, owner draw support, icons, custom-size pictures, WYSWYG Template editor, semi-transparent colors, progress-bar support, and much more...
- Surface The eXSurface lets you organize your objects to a surface. You can use the tool to generate organigrams, diagrams, graphs, flowcharts and so on.
- Swimlane The ExSwimLane component let's you draw swim lane diagrams. A swim lane (or swimlane diagram) is a visual element used in process flow diagrams, or flowcharts, that visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swim lanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically.
- Tab The Exontrol ExTab component is a SKIN based TAB control. A tab control is analogous to the dividers in a notebook or the labels in a file cabinet.
- Thumbnail The Exontrol's eXThumbnail component provides thumbnail views for your files. Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or shell items, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
- ToolBar The eXToolBar component arranges / groups as rows or columns, any kind of graphical control elements such as buttons, icons, drop downs, editors, and so on, to let user choose quickly, what function / procedure to run. The eXToolBar component is written from scratch, uses EBN technology to let the user changes its visual appearance using skins, and requires no dependencies to any other third party library.
- ToolTip The Exontrol's ExToolTip provides featured tooltips for your application. The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.
- Tree Add an enhanced exTree component to your application. exTree provides the entire range of capabilities you would expect to see in a state-of-the-art tree component. The exTree control simulates a simple tree, a multi-column tree, a list or a listview control.
- TreeCube The eXTreeCube library provides fisheye representation / cube map texturing of different components such as calendar , multiple - columns tree view and so on.
- XMLGrid Exontrol's new eXMLGrid control provides an innovative grid view look and handles data in XML fashion way. It provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features never seen on other grids. The eXMLGrid component can be seen as a generalized tree control that allows resizing the node's indentation at runtime. The eXMLGrid component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
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NET Components
- Suite Complete Developer Solution. The eXSuite provides a series of powerful and easy-to-use combo-list-tree-grid controls, gantt, gauge or chart controls to display your data, and much more. Includes more than 60 components, with over 300 objects, 11,000 functions, and more than 5,250,000 lines of source code...
- Agent The ExDialog control, similar with the Microsoft Office Assistant, is a new type of control that allows attaching pictures to your form or dialog. The control lets you add interactive personalities to your application or Web site.
- Button The Exontrol's exButton control is designed to enhance your Windows-based programs by offering the look-and-feel of past and present GUI design elements. The control provides predefined button skins for Windows XP, Windows 95/98, and Mac 8.x buttons. Create your own skins for your buttons in minutes, using a WYSYWG skin builder. The ability to specify everything that control needs like graphical objects, transparent skins, HTML captions as simple text makes the exButton one of the most wanted button control on the market. The exButton control easily replaces the Standard Windows button by supporting most of the same properties, methods and events. In addition, you have complete control over how the button is to be displayed.
- CalcEdit Enrich your application with an easy-to-use edit control that supports arithmetic operations. Get results on the fly. The result is displayed as the user types the expression. The control handles double constants and arithmetic operations like +( addition ), - ( subtraction ), / ( division ), or * ( multiply ). The control is fully written in C++ using ATL. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC or else.
- Calculator Exontrol's ExCalc component provides calculator features to your application. The component provides implementation for basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. In addition, you can configure the layout of the calculator the way you want, including new mathematical operations. The component provides flat and drop down version, so you can have the calculator into a drop down field too.
- Calendar The ExCalendar library contains two components, simple version and drop-down version that allow you to select a date with a nice GUI. You can select the date between 1/1/100 and 12/31/9999, Both versions support images, colors, font attributes, tooltips for any date.
- CascadeTree The eXCascadeTree component is a multiple-columns-tree-view component that uses miller columns visualization to display your data. The Miller columns (also known as Cascading Lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
- ComboBox The eXComboBox represents some of the most advanced combobox technology available in the components marketplace. A combo box is a commonly-used GUI tool. It is a combination of a drop-down list or list box and a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly into the control or choose from the list of existing options.
- ContextMenu The eXContextMenu component displays and handles a context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu). A context menu is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.
- DataView Exontrol's new exRecord control is a container component that displays a set of editors added manually or bounded to a table in a database.
- Edit Add to your applicaton an easy-to-use edit control that supports built-in HTML format, and syntax highlighting as well. You can define your own keywords and expressions using HTML tags. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC, VB or anything else, and does not subclass the system's EDIT window class.
- ExplorerBar The ExplorerBar component, an accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Windows XP Explorer Bar, provides an intuitive user-interface when large amounts of information need to be presented.The object model is rich and intuitive.
- ExplorerTree Add structured navigation functionality to your applications. The ExplorerTree component adds navigation functionality to your applications, it brings simple information structuring and easy application navigation.
- Expression The Exontrol's eXPression component is a syntax-editor that helps you to define, view, edit and evaluate expressions.
- FileView Provide rich display of file and folder information from within your applications. ExFileView is an ActiveX component for creating Windows Explorer-style functionality. The ExFileView simulates a FolderView control as well.
- FolderView Exontrol's new ExFolderView component provides a folder tree-list view which is identical with the left pane of your Windows Explorer.
- Gantt The Exontrol's ExGantt component is our approach to create timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts). Gantt chart is a time-phased graphic display of activity durations. Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars. Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars. The exGantt component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- Gauge The eXGauge / eXLayers library provides graphics capabilities to visually display and edit the amount, level, or contents of something. The view can show one or more layers, where each layer can display one or more transparent pictures, HTML captions which can be clipped, moved, rotated or combination of them, by dragging the mouse, rolling the mouse wheel, or using the keyboard.
- Grid Exontrol's new eXGrid control an easy-to-implement tree-grid control, provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features that distinguish it from other grids. The eXGrid is a multi-purpose data visualization system that can display information as a tree, a grid or list, or a combination of both - in either data-bound or unbound mode. This unique synergy between a traditional grid and a traditional treeview allows you to create cutting-edge and visually appealing application interfaces for your end-users.
- Grid-Gantt The Exontrol's eXG2antt component is an editable tree-grid component that includes Gantt chart features. The ex(G)rid-ex(G)antt, shortly exG2antt or ex2Gantt, combines the exGrid and exGantt components in a standalone component. The exG2antt library lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- HTML Display and edit built-in HTML without relying on Internet Explorer. exHTML is a display/edit engine for our built-in HTML format. It is written from scratch in C++/C#. It does not rely on IE for rendering HTML, and its functionality is similar to a Web browser for display/edit purposes. exHTML can be used for the provision of extremely flexible user interfaces generated on demand. It can also function as a complex layout management system for text, controls, and graphics. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC, VB or anything else, and does not subclass the system's EDIT window class.
- ICalendar The ExICalendar library implements the ICalendar data format, according with Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification, RFC 5545. The iCalendar data format represents exchanging calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, independent of any particular calendar service or protocol. The iCalendar format is suitable as an exchange format between applications or systems. The format is defined in terms of a MIME content type.
- Label The Exontrol's eXLabel component provides HTML labels for your forms or dialogs.
- List Add an advanced List control to your application. The exList component displays and edit your tabular data. The exList component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
- ListBar The ExListBar component, an accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Outlook Bar, provides an intuitive user-interface when large amounts of information need to be presented. The ExListBar supports horizontal or vertical orientation. The object model is rich and intuitive.
- MaskEdit When you have several people entering data in your database, you can define how users must enter data in specific fields to help maintain consistency and to make your database easier to manage. For example, you can set an input mask for a form so that users can only enter telephone numbers in the Swedish format or addresses in the French format.
- Miller The eXMiller component is a file-folder-view component that uses miller columns visualization to display system folders and files. The Miller columns (also known as Cascading Lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
- NETHost The Exontrol's NETHost control allows you to use any Windows Form User Control (/NET framework) on your /COM windows / forms / dialogs.
- OrgChart The ExOrgChart component permits the totally automatic generation of organigrams. An organigram generally provides a clear picture of the hierarchical position of the various actors. The ExOrgChart control shows a hierarchical display of nodes, each one having an HTML caption, pictures and icons aligned to any side of the node.
- Pivot The Exontrol's eXPivot tool is our approach to provide data summarization, as a pivot table. A pivot-table can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. The user sets up and changes the summary's structure by dragging and dropping fields graphically.
- Print The Exontrol ExPrint component is an advanced printing system specifically to bring your User Interface to the printed page. The ExPrint adds powerful print and preview capabilities to your forms, dialog boxes or other windows. The ExPrint component provides Print and Print Preview features for components like: exGrid, exTree, exList, exCalendar, exComboBox, exPropertiesList, exEdit, exFileView, exOrgChart and so on.
- PropertiesList The ExPropertiesList control (similar to the control used to manipulate properties in Visual Studio) provides an efficient, intuitive and visually compact way to handle data input with minimal coding and user interface design.
- RadialMenu The eXRadialMenu ( radial or pie menu) component is similar to the Microsoft.s OneNote radial menu with ability to customize the appearance and functionality. The component is designed using tree structure of tools and tool collections within the tools
- Ribbon The eXRibbon component, similar with the Microsoft Office's "Fluent User Interface", or Ribbon, allows you to display graphical control elements in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs.
- Scheduler The eXSchedule tool is our approach to provide scheduling of appointments into your application.
- ScrollBar The Exontrol's newly exScrollBar control simulates vertical or horizontal scroll bar, slider, track, volume or gauge controls.
- ShellView Exontrol's new ExShellView component provides a file list view which is identical with the right pane of your Windows Explorer.
- SkinBox Exontrol's new ExSkinBox offers you skinable message and input boxes that can display HTML format and custom images as well.
- Slider The Exontrol's eXSlider component allows you adding skinable sliders to your forms or dialogs.
- SplitBar The Exontrol's eXSplitBar component, helps you to automatically resizes the left/right or top/bottom components, while user drags the split bar to a new position. The splitter control is used to resize docked controls at run time. The splitter control is often used on forms with controls that have varying lengths of data to present, like Windows Explorer, whose data panes contain information of varying widths at different times.
- StatusBar Add a fuly customizable statusbar to your application. Features include: ability to layout the panels as you wish using the CRD strings, skinning, built-in HTML support, tooltip support, owner draw support, icons, custom-size pictures, WYSWYG Template editor, semi-transparent colors, progress-bar support, and much more...
- Surface The eXSurface lets you organize your objects to a surface. You can use the tool to generate organigrams, diagrams, graphs, flowcharts and so on.
- Swimlane The ExSwimLane component let's you draw swim lane diagrams. A swim lane (or swimlane diagram) is a visual element used in process flow diagrams, or flowcharts, that visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swim lanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically.
- Tab The Exontrol ExTab component is a SKIN based TAB control. A tab control is analogous to the dividers in a notebook or the labels in a file cabinet.
- Thumbnail The Exontrol's eXThumbnail component provides thumbnail views for your files. Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or shell items, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
- ToolBar The eXToolBar component arranges / groups as rows or columns, any kind of graphical control elements such as buttons, icons, drop downs, editors, and so on, to let user choose quickly, what function / procedure to run. The eXToolBar component is written from scratch, uses EBN technology to let the user changes its visual appearance using skins, and requires no dependencies to any other third party library.
- ToolTip The Exontrol's ExToolTip provides featured tooltips for your application. The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.
- Tree Add an enhanced exTree component to your application. exTree provides the entire range of capabilities you would expect to see in a state-of-the-art tree component. The exTree control simulates a simple tree, a multi-column tree, a list or a listview control.
- TreeCube The eXTreeCube library provides fisheye representation / cube map texturing of different components such as calendar , multiple - columns tree view and so on.
- XMLGrid Exontrol's new eXMLGrid control provides an innovative grid view look and handles data in XML fashion way. It provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features never seen on other grids. The eXMLGrid component can be seen as a generalized tree control that allows resizing the node's indentation at runtime. The eXMLGrid component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
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WPF Components
- Suite Complete Developer Solution. The eXSuite provides a series of powerful and easy-to-use combo-list-tree-grid controls, gantt, gauge or chart controls to display your data, and much more. Includes more than 60 components, with over 300 objects, 11,000 functions, and more than 5,250,000 lines of source code...
- CalcEdit Enrich your application with an easy-to-use edit control that supports arithmetic operations. Get results on the fly. The result is displayed as the user types the expression. The control handles double constants and arithmetic operations like +( addition ), - ( subtraction ), / ( division ), or * ( multiply ). The control is fully written in C++ using ATL. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC or else.
- Calendar The ExCalendar library contains two components, simple version and drop-down version that allow you to select a date with a nice GUI. You can select the date between 1/1/100 and 12/31/9999, Both versions support images, colors, font attributes, tooltips for any date.
- CascadeTree The eXCascadeTree component is a multiple-columns-tree-view component that uses miller columns visualization to display your data. The Miller columns (also known as Cascading Lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
- ComboBox The eXComboBox represents some of the most advanced combobox technology available in the components marketplace. A combo box is a commonly-used GUI tool. It is a combination of a drop-down list or list box and a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly into the control or choose from the list of existing options.
- ContextMenu The eXContextMenu component displays and handles a context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu). A context menu is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.
- Edit Add to your applicaton an easy-to-use edit control that supports built-in HTML format, and syntax highlighting as well. You can define your own keywords and expressions using HTML tags. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC, VB or anything else, and does not subclass the system's EDIT window class.
- ExplorerBar The ExplorerBar component, an accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Windows XP Explorer Bar, provides an intuitive user-interface when large amounts of information need to be presented.The object model is rich and intuitive.
- ExplorerTree Add structured navigation functionality to your applications. The ExplorerTree component adds navigation functionality to your applications, it brings simple information structuring and easy application navigation.
- Expression The Exontrol's eXPression component is a syntax-editor that helps you to define, view, edit and evaluate expressions.
- FileView Provide rich display of file and folder information from within your applications. ExFileView is an ActiveX component for creating Windows Explorer-style functionality. The ExFileView simulates a FolderView control as well.
- Gantt The Exontrol's ExGantt component is our approach to create timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts). Gantt chart is a time-phased graphic display of activity durations. Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars. Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars. The exGantt component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- Gauge The eXGauge / eXLayers library provides graphics capabilities to visually display and edit the amount, level, or contents of something. The view can show one or more layers, where each layer can display one or more transparent pictures, HTML captions which can be clipped, moved, rotated or combination of them, by dragging the mouse, rolling the mouse wheel, or using the keyboard.
- Grid Exontrol's new eXGrid control an easy-to-implement tree-grid control, provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features that distinguish it from other grids. The eXGrid is a multi-purpose data visualization system that can display information as a tree, a grid or list, or a combination of both - in either data-bound or unbound mode. This unique synergy between a traditional grid and a traditional treeview allows you to create cutting-edge and visually appealing application interfaces for your end-users.
- Grid-Gantt The Exontrol's eXG2antt component is an editable tree-grid component that includes Gantt chart features. The ex(G)rid-ex(G)antt, shortly exG2antt or ex2Gantt, combines the exGrid and exGantt components in a standalone component. The exG2antt library lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- HTML Display and edit built-in HTML without relying on Internet Explorer. exHTML is a display/edit engine for our built-in HTML format. It is written from scratch in C++/C#. It does not rely on IE for rendering HTML, and its functionality is similar to a Web browser for display/edit purposes. exHTML can be used for the provision of extremely flexible user interfaces generated on demand. It can also function as a complex layout management system for text, controls, and graphics. The control doesn't require additional files or libraries like MFC, VB or anything else, and does not subclass the system's EDIT window class.
- List Add an advanced List control to your application. The exList component displays and edit your tabular data. The exList component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
- ListBar The ExListBar component, an accurate reproduction of the Microsoft Outlook Bar, provides an intuitive user-interface when large amounts of information need to be presented. The ExListBar supports horizontal or vertical orientation. The object model is rich and intuitive.
- Miller The eXMiller component is a file-folder-view component that uses miller columns visualization to display system folders and files. The Miller columns (also known as Cascading Lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
- OrgChart The ExOrgChart component permits the totally automatic generation of organigrams. An organigram generally provides a clear picture of the hierarchical position of the various actors. The ExOrgChart control shows a hierarchical display of nodes, each one having an HTML caption, pictures and icons aligned to any side of the node.
- Pivot The Exontrol's eXPivot tool is our approach to provide data summarization, as a pivot table. A pivot-table can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. The user sets up and changes the summary's structure by dragging and dropping fields graphically.
- PropertiesList The ExPropertiesList control (similar to the control used to manipulate properties in Visual Studio) provides an efficient, intuitive and visually compact way to handle data input with minimal coding and user interface design.
- RadialMenu The eXRadialMenu ( radial or pie menu) component is similar to the Microsoft.s OneNote radial menu with ability to customize the appearance and functionality. The component is designed using tree structure of tools and tool collections within the tools
- Ribbon The eXRibbon component, similar with the Microsoft Office's "Fluent User Interface", or Ribbon, allows you to display graphical control elements in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs.
- Scheduler The eXSchedule tool is our approach to provide scheduling of appointments into your application.
- Surface The eXSurface lets you organize your objects to a surface. You can use the tool to generate organigrams, diagrams, graphs, flowcharts and so on.
- Swimlane The ExSwimLane component let's you draw swim lane diagrams. A swim lane (or swimlane diagram) is a visual element used in process flow diagrams, or flowcharts, that visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swim lanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically.
- Thumbnail The Exontrol's eXThumbnail component provides thumbnail views for your files. Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or shell items, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
- ToolBar The eXToolBar component arranges / groups as rows or columns, any kind of graphical control elements such as buttons, icons, drop downs, editors, and so on, to let user choose quickly, what function / procedure to run. The eXToolBar component is written from scratch, uses EBN technology to let the user changes its visual appearance using skins, and requires no dependencies to any other third party library.
- Tree Add an enhanced exTree component to your application. exTree provides the entire range of capabilities you would expect to see in a state-of-the-art tree component. The exTree control simulates a simple tree, a multi-column tree, a list or a listview control.
- TreeCube The eXTreeCube library provides fisheye representation / cube map texturing of different components such as calendar , multiple - columns tree view and so on.
- XMLGrid Exontrol's new eXMLGrid control provides an innovative grid view look and handles data in XML fashion way. It provides swift and robust performance and a wide range of formatting features never seen on other grids. The eXMLGrid component can be seen as a generalized tree control that allows resizing the node's indentation at runtime. The eXMLGrid component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
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JS Components
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- Calendar The ExCalendar library contains two components, simple version and drop-down version that allow you to select a date with a nice GUI. You can select the date between 1/1/100 and 12/31/9999, Both versions support images, colors, font attributes, tooltips for any date.
- ComboBox The eXComboBox represents some of the most advanced combobox technology available in the components marketplace. A combo box is a commonly-used GUI tool. It is a combination of a drop-down list or list box and a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly into the control or choose from the list of existing options.
- ICalendar The ExICalendar library implements the ICalendar data format, according with Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification, RFC 5545. The iCalendar data format represents exchanging calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, independent of any particular calendar service or protocol. The iCalendar format is suitable as an exchange format between applications or systems. The format is defined in terms of a MIME content type.
- Gantt The Exontrol's ExGantt component is our approach to create timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts). Gantt chart is a time-phased graphic display of activity durations. Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars. Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars. The exGantt component lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure.
- Gauge The eXGauge / eXLayers library provides graphics capabilities to visually display and edit the amount, level, or contents of something. The view can show one or more layers, where each layer can display one or more transparent pictures, HTML captions which can be clipped, moved, rotated or combination of them, by dragging the mouse, rolling the mouse wheel, or using the keyboard.
- Graph
- Menu The ExMenu component is a complete new type of control that displays and handles more than a menu for your application. The ExMenu simulates menu bar, popup menu, options button, toolbar, pick list, and more. Make you application more intuitive using the ExMenu.
- OrgChart The ExOrgChart component permits the totally automatic generation of organigrams. An organigram generally provides a clear picture of the hierarchical position of the various actors. The ExOrgChart control shows a hierarchical display of nodes, each one having an HTML caption, pictures and icons aligned to any side of the node.
- Pivot The Exontrol's eXPivot tool is our approach to provide data summarization, as a pivot table. A pivot-table can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. The user sets up and changes the summary's structure by dragging and dropping fields graphically.
- RadialMenu The eXRadialMenu ( radial or pie menu) component is similar to the Microsoft.s OneNote radial menu with ability to customize the appearance and functionality. The component is designed using tree structure of tools and tool collections within the tools
- Scheduler The eXSchedule tool is our approach to provide scheduling of appointments into your application.
- ScrollBar The Exontrol's newly exScrollBar control simulates vertical or horizontal scroll bar, slider, track, volume or gauge controls.
- Surface The eXSurface lets you organize your objects to a surface. You can use the tool to generate organigrams, diagrams, graphs, flowcharts and so on.
- Swimlane The ExSwimLane component let's you draw swim lane diagrams. A swim lane (or swimlane diagram) is a visual element used in process flow diagrams, or flowcharts, that visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swim lanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically.
- Tree Add an enhanced exTree component to your application. exTree provides the entire range of capabilities you would expect to see in a state-of-the-art tree component. The exTree control simulates a simple tree, a multi-column tree, a list or a listview control.
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Tools
- eXHelper (how to tool) The Exontrol's eXHelper tool helps you to find easy and quickly the answers and the source code for your questions regarding the usage of our UI components.
- eXInstaller (installer/uninstaller tool) The ExInstaller is a software component and application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows OS used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of our software. The ExInstaller is the base tool that installs / uninstalls any of our software products. The installation information and the files themselves, are packaged in installation packages ( .LZW files ).
- eXImages (BASE64 tool) The ExImages tool is a BASE64 encoder/decoder tool, which helps you to generate encoded-BASE64 strings for Images, VisualAppearance.Add, HTMLPicture, ... methods from icons, EBN or any picture files.
- eXEBN (skining tool) Tool to view, create, edit EBN files. Generally, the EBN is a set of UI elements that are built as a tree where each element is anchored to its parent element.
- eXETB (skining tool for eXTab) Tool to view, create, edit ETB files ( the ETB provides skin capabilities for eXTab component ). Generally, the ETB is a set of UI elements that are built as a tree where each element is anchored to its parent element.
- eXCRD (layout tool) The Exontrol's Custom Row Designer ( exCRD ) is a WYSWYG tool to build new layouts for cells/nodes, items/rows or columns/fields. The exCRD tool generates CRD strings from the layout you built. The syntax of CRD strings is designed to be easy to build, change and read.
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If you need to see some general features of our components, please check the Features page.
The following table shows some particular features that we have and that are missing in some other similar products, of course more expensive.
| Feature | Description | ||
| 1 | 
Filtering |
Ability to filter the items using a interactive UI mode | |
| 2 |
Group-By Support |
The user can drag and drop one or more columns to the group-by bar so the columns/tasks get sorted and grouped accordingly. | |
| 3 |
Histogram |
Ability to display the over-loading over-allocating resources in a histogram | |
| 4 |
Inside-Zoom |
Ability to magnify a portion of the chart only, while the rest stay unchanged | |
| 5 |
Mark-Zone |
Ability to mark or highlight zones in the time scale with different colors, EBNs, patterns, HTML captions, images, and so on | |
| 6 |
Non-Working Days / Hours |
Ability to HIDE the non-working hours, days, not only displaying with a different pattern | |
| 7 |
Notes/Boxes |
Ability to associate notes or boxes relative to activities or dates in the chart | |
| 8 |
Overlay-Bars |
Ability to re-arrange vertically the bars so they best fit the item by increasing its height if required | |
| 9 |
Overview |
Ability to display the map of bars in the overview area, as they are arranged in the visible items. | |
| 10 |
Resources Viewer |
Ability to manipulate the task's resources | |
| 11 |
Runtime-Enlarge |
Ability to enlarge the entire chart by dragging the chart's header or using the middle mouse button, without rescaling | |
| 12 |
Runtime-Zoom-Scale |
Ability to magnify the entire chart by dragging the chart's header or using the middle mouse button, with rescaling | |
| 13 |
Scheduling |
Ability to schedule the activities in the project plan | |
| 14 |
Semi-Transparent Bars |
Ability to display bars with a percent of transparency | |
| 15 |
Skinning |
Ability to define your own skin and to put on any part of the control, from bars to scrollbars | |
| 16 |
Split-View |
Ability to split the chart section into multiple views | |
| 17 |
Undo/Redo |
Undo/Redo manager records chart's operations so you can undo/redo your actions | |
| 18 |
Zoom-On-Fly |
Ability to magnify the bar's starting or ending points while moving or resizing | |
| 19 |
Zoom-Scale |
Ability to display the zoom scale, and scale the chart as the user needs | |
| 20 | Multiple Columns Sort | Ability to sort by multiple columns | |
| 21 | Built-in HTML | Ability to display your captions using HTML format | |
| 22 | Incremental Search | Ability to search for an item by typing characters | |
| 23 | Hosting | Ability to display and host inside the cells any other third party component, such as calendars and so on | |
| 24 | Merging or Splitting the cells | Ability to merge or split the cells | |
| 25 | Conditional Format | Ability to display cells based on a formula with different font, colors, and so on | |
| 26 | CRD | Custom Row Designer (Have your rows display however you want with the control row layout capabilities) |
This following table shows some advantages that we and our customers found between our product and other similar products.
| Description | Our Gantt | Other Gantt | |
| 1 | Hierarchy (Tree view) | Ability to insert and display child items as in a tree control | Only simulating the child indentation |
| 2 | Multiple Columns | Implemented | Only in few, and most with predefined columns |
| 3 | TimeScale Levels | Allows unlimited number of levels to be displayed | Only 2 levels |
| 4 | TimeScale Labels | Unlimited options to define the labels using <%%> | Only predefined labels |
| 5 | Overview/Layout Area | Implemented | Only in few products |
| 6 | Histogram support | Implemented | Only in few products |
| 7 | Zooming Support | Implemented | Only in few products |
| 8 | Filtering support | On-Fly-Custom Filtering support | Only predefined filters, and not in all products |
| 9 | Incremental Search | StartWith or Contains incremental search implemented | Not found |
| 10 | Skinning Support | Ability to skin any part of the control, including scrollbars | As the current theme displays some predefined controls |
| 11 | Sort Bar support | Implemented | Not implemented |
| 12 | Semi-Transparent Bars support | Implemented | Not implemented |
| 13 | Template support | Implemented | Not implemented |
| 14 | XML support | Implemented | Saves as binary to predefined type of files |
| 15 | ActiveX hosting | Implemented | Not implemented |
| 16 | Nonworking Dates | Allows custom nonworking dates | Doesn't support custom dates |
| 17 | Partial Check | Supported for each column | Support for a single column only |
| 18 | Custom bars | Support for shapes and patterns with custom icons | Only with predefined icons |
| 19 | Multiple Bars | Allows multiple bars to a single item | Only One, and in few allows up to n bars |
| 20 | HTML Text | Includes colors, font attributes, icons, pictures in any text | Not supported |
| 21 | Pictures on links | Implemented | Not found |
| 22 | Mark units | Implemented | Not implemented |
| 23 | Items with different heights | Implemented | Only in few |
| 24 | Multiple icons/pictures to the cell | Supported | Only limited to one icon/picture per cell |
| 25 | Custom buttons scrollbars | Implemented | Not implemented |
| 26 | Scrolling Fast the Chart area | Adds page scroll buttons to chart's scroll bar | Not implemented |
| 27 | Copy and Paste | Ability to Copy the control's date to EMF format | Not found |
| 28 | Split or merging cells support | Supported | Not supported |
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| 29 | Price | Affordable | Pricey |
| 30 | Technical Support | 1 Year | You must pay |
| 31 | Professional Support | You get mostly support directly from the author | Talking with secretaries |
| 32 | New Versions | 1 Year | 30 Days |
| 33 | Maintenance | At least once a month | Once a Year |
| 34 | Runtime License | The price is per developer | You must pay royalties for each run |
| 35 | Supported Environments | VB, VB.NET, VBA, C++, C#, VFP, Access, HTML | For specified environment |
| 36 | Dependencies | No dependencies | Requires even MFC or VB, VB.NET runtime libraries |
| 37 | Number of Lines of Code | Not hidden | For most of the products we have not found |
| 38 | Time to Evaluate the Product | Unlimited | Limited to a number of weeks |
| 39 | Time to fix a BUG | As soon as we are notified and we can duplicate it | Added to the control's wish list. Options to avoid that |
| 40 | Request for New Features | Open to everyone | Mostly you are ignored |
We still encourage you to download a trial copy and see for yourself.