Files to be included with your application

The file that your application needs to redistribute is 3DABM8U.OCX: if you installed 3D Active Button Magic inside the default "C:\Program files\3D Active Button Magic" folder, you will find this file inside the "C:\Program files\3D Active Button Magic\Redist" subfolder.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Be careful not redistributing the 3DABM8U.OCX file available inside the "C:\Program files\3D Active Button Magic" main folder: this file is provided with the only purpose of avoiding a bug affecting Borland Delphi and Borland C++ Builder.

In order to improve performance, we have adopted Microsoft GDI+ technology. This means that if your target PC operating system is Windows XP or later version, you will not have to redistribute any other DLL because this technology is already included.

If you are targeting a previous operating system, such as Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 SP6, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, you will have to verify the presence of the GDIPLUS.DLL file or, alternatively, to redistribute it with your application. Microsoft strongly recommends against putting GDIPLUS.DLL in system folders to avoid "DLL hell" problems, so you should put GDIPLUS.DLL into your application folder or, alternatively, inside a non-system folder and add the path to this folder to the environment variable PATH.

Microsoft states that GDIPLUS.DLL is not compatible with Windows 95 and versions of Windows NT® 4.0 without SP6 installed.

For your convenience, you will find the GDIPLUS.DLL file inside the same folder in which you installed 3D Active Button Magic (default C:\Program files\3D Active Button Magic).

SPECIAL NOTE A: Due to the fact that this control is fully UNICODE compliant, if you install the 3DABM8U.OCX file on Windows 98 or Windows ME you will need to redistribute also the UNICOWS.DLL file with your application; this file must be installed in the same directory of 3DABM8U.OCX (do not install it in the Windows\System or WinNT\System32 folders or the control will not register correctly on the target system).

For your convenience, you will find the UNICOWS.DLL file inside the same folder in which you installed 3D Active Button Magic (default C:\Program files\3D Active Button Magic).

SPECIAL NOTE B: In order for the control to register and work correctly on the target system, the following is a summary of the Microsoft Windows libraries that must be available on the target system (usually you won't need to redistribute them):