Released on = January 30, 2006, 4:39 am

Press Release Author = CprinGold Software

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = ASTC is a TrayIcon, TrayList, Balloon, Subclass ActiveX
controls in one Control.

Press Release Body = What is ASTC 1.50?

ASTC component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB.NET, or other
COM environment applications to add four powerful functionality to your
applications.


. Tray Icon ActiveX Control.
. Tray List ActiveX Control.
. Subclass ActiveX Control.
. Balloon ActiveX Control.


ASTC offers something for every programmer. Adding your software icon to system tray
is an easy programming topic but can become a nightmare especially when you try to
use the advanced features like tooltip balloon, animating icons.

Tray Icon Control contains all the functions you can imagine about system tray
programming so you can focus in your software idea in which you intend to write as
well as you will avoid using the Native win32 API calls to handle system tray
programming.

With Tray Icon Control you can easily show or hide your Application icon whenever
you want, you will be able to animate the icon whenever you want, you will be able
to handle all the events that may happen to the icon like right button up event or
left button up etc..., Tray Icon Control also can handle a very nice feature which
is the balloon tooltip given your application a professional look.

If you try before to get system tray icons information from within your application
you can imagine the benefits of TrayList ActiveX Control which provides an easy way
to get system tray icons and enable your applications to manage system tray icons
and get all the information about these icons, also you can hide a specified icon
from system tray area.

You can save your time by using the SubClass control, in which you can extend your
application functionality, Subclassing is the process of intercepting Windows
messages that your program normally wouldn\'t Receive, so it extends your ability to
process more windows messages and add new features to your program, for example
Combo Box ActiveX control doesn\'t provides a mouse move event in which we can use
for displaying a balloon tooltip for the Combo Box, but if we SubClass the Combo Box
using the SubClass control we can make this.

With the Balloon Control you can associate a balloon tooltip for a specified control
at particular event, like the case of the Combo Box. Also you can customize the
balloon style [Balloon or Rectangle] or you can customize the BackColor and
ForeColor of the Balloon.

The ASTC 1.50 installer package contain sample code of using the four controls in
the following languages Vb6.0, VC++6.0, VB.Net, VC#.NET and VJ#.NET.

ASTC is US$19.90 shareware. It is available from the CprinGold Software web site and
all major shareware download sites.

System Requirements:
Any IDE under MS windows that support ActiveX controls.



TrayIcon ActiveX Control Features:

* Show-Hide your software icon in system Tray area.
* Show the icon in animation state.
* Assign a tooltip for the icon.
* Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible].
* Show a balloon tool tip even displaying on win9x.
* Change the icon and tooltip in run time.
* Ability to assign a popup menu for a particular event happen to the icon
even displaying on win9x.
* Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the popup
menu will be closed.
*Show more than one icon in the system tray.

TrayList ActiveX Control Features:

* Get all the information about the system tray icons.
* Hide any specified icon from system tray area.

SubClass ActiveX Control Features:

* Intercepting Windows messages that your program normally wouldn\'t receive, so it
extends your ability to process more windows messages and add new features to your
program.

Balloon ActiveX Control Features:

* Assign a balloon tooltip to a particular control or a window.
* Customize the balloon BackColor and ForeColor.
* Customize the Balloon Style [Balloon or Rectangle].
* Custom events associated with the balloon [BalloonHide, BalloonLeftClick,
BalloonRightClick and BalloonShow].

Some ASTC Features Described in Detail

TrayIcon ActiveX Control is a very easy way to add icon to systray in vb language or
any language that supports ActiveX controls, no need to use Shell_NotifyIcon API
function again.

The Tooltip balloon feature of TrayIcon Control enables the developer to show a
balloon in which it points to the icon in the system tray, with this feature you can
return the application state to the End user or notify the user if a new event had
been occurred given your application a professional look also the developer can
display this balloon tooltip even displaying is in win9x.

The Animating Feature of TrayIcon Control enables the developer to animate the icon
in the system tray area, first the developer must insert the animation icons into an
ImageList control then assign the ImageList control to StartAnimation method, so no
need to worry about Animating system tray icons at all because ASTC will handle this
for you, when you want to stop the animation, simply call StopAnimateing method.

Another feature of TrayIcon Control in which save the developer time is that
TrayIcon Control can tracks the popup menu in which had been assigned to an event
related to the icon like right button up.
What do you mean about this?
when you assign a pop up menu for the right button up event, the pop up menu doesn\'t
disappear unless the user clicks an item in it, TrayIcon Control solves this problem
without using mouse global hook by tracking the popup menu and close it whenever the
user left click outside the menu.

TrayIcon Object dynamically creates an internal window related to it\'s instance, to
assign the icon for and destroy this window whenever you call Hide method or close
your application.

You can use SubClass ActiveX control to subclass any window in which had a
handle/hwnd Property, so you can subclass Forms, textbox, rich textbox, tree view,
list box, labels or any kind of controls that you can get it\'s handle, there is no
need to use SetWindowLong API function again Or worry about your application
Crashing due to using the SubClass technique.

You can use TrayList ActiveX control to manage windows systray icons
Or removing icons from systray as well as get all the information about systray icons.

Balloon Control is an advanced customizable balloon tooltip Control so you can use
Balloon ActiveX Control to add a professional look for you applications.

Availability

ASTC 1.50 is available now, and may be downloaded through our Web site at


About CprinGold Software

CprinGold Software is an online software development company, our main market is
small Internet development teams and individuals who need low cost effective
solutions and personalized support services.
This is exactly what we are committed to providing.

CprinGold Software distributes its products under the shareware principles: try
before you buy and minimal or no marketing costs. As a result shareware costs a
fraction of the price of most other commercial software.

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