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3D Active Button Magic - Help
Table of contents
Introduction
Copyright information
License agreement
Files to be included with your application
How to contact MultiMedia Soft
How to report bugs to our technical support
Obsolete elements
Tutorials
How to use the control in your projects
How to speed up buttons rendering
How to use Mnemonic Constants
How to change the button style
How to manage button templates
How to change the button appearance
How to create a custom shaped button
How to customize the 3D rendering of custom shaped buttons
How to change the button colors
How to add text to the button
How to manage surface lighting
How to display bitmaps and animations
How to change button resources
How to manage alpha channel transparency
How to manage cells
How to apply a texture to the button surface
How to use pictures and sounds downloaded from the Internet
How to know if a button has the input focus
How to use Hyperlinks
How to play sounds with the button
How to render buttons over a picture
How to change the cursor
How to group Radio buttons together
How to use Enhanced Standard controls
How to use the control as a Frame control
How to use the control as a Picture control
How to create rollover effects like in Macromedia Flash
How to create AMZ compressed files for use over the Internet
How to perform custom graphic rendering over the control surface
Other useful settings
Properties
BackColor property
BackColorContainer property
BackColorDisabled property
BackColorFocus property
BackColorInterior property
BackColorMouseOver property
ButtonRaiseFactor property
Caption property
CaptionWordWrapPerc property
CellsManager property
Clickable property
ColorSurfaceDisabled property
ColorSurfaceFocus property
ColorSurfaceInternal property
ColorSurfaceMO property
ColorSurfaceNormal property
ColorSurfacePressed property
CornerFactor property
Cursor property
Enabled property
EnabledInternetLoadAtDT property
FlatPillowFactor property
FocusMode property
FontTextCaption property
FontTextCB property
FontTextCT property
FontTextLB property
FontTextLM property
FontTextLT property
FontTextRB property
FontTextRM property
FontTextRT property
ForeColor property
ForeColorDisabled property
ForeColorMouseOver property
ForeColorPressed property
FrameEffect property
HighlightColor property
hWnd property
HollowFrame property
Hyperlink property
LightDirection property
MovePictureOnPress property
OptionGroupDelimiter property
Orientation property
Picture property
PictureCustom property
PictureDisabled property
PictureKeepRatio property
PictureMouseOver property
PicturePosition property
PicturePressed property
PictureTranspColor property
PictureTranspFactor property
PictureTranspMode property
PictureVisible property
PictureXOffset property
PictureYOffset property
RectHardEdges property
ShadowColor property
ShadowMode property
Shape property
ShapeHeadFactor property
ShapeLineFactor property
Slant property
SmoothEdges property
SoundDown property
SoundMouseOut property
SoundMouseOver property
SoundUp property
SpecialEffect property
SpecialEffectFactor property
SpotlightColor property
SpotlightOffsetX property
SpotlightOffsetY property
SpotlightResizeHeight property
SpotlightResizeWidth property
SpotlightVisible property
Style property
Surface property
SurfaceTransparentFactor property
SurfaceTransparentZone property
SwapEffectsColors property
TagEx property
TextCaptionAlignment property
TextDescrCaption property
TextDescrCB property
TextDescrCT property
TextDescrLB property
TextDescrLM property
TextDescrLT property
TextDescrRB property
TextDescrRM property
TextDescrRT property
TextureSurface property
UseAntialiasing property
Value property
Methods
AnimGetFramesCount method
AnimGetFramesRate method
AnimInvertPlay method
AnimPause method
AnimResume method
AnimSetFramesRate method
AnimShowFrame method
AboutBox method
ClearButtonCache method
DoClick method
EnableAcceleratorForVB method
EnableButtonCache method
EnableSound method
ExportBtnImage method
GetButtonCacheSize method
GetEdition method
GetVersion method
LoadTemplate method
LoadTemplateEx method
MouseCapture method
Refresh method
RefreshTransparentControl method
SaveTemplate method
SaveTemplateEx method
SetAutomaticRefresh method
SetAnimFromMemory method
SetAnimFromNet method
SetCursorFromHandle method
SetCustomPaintFunction method
SetNSContainerColor method
SetPictureFromHandle method
SetPictureFromMemory method
SetPictureFromNet method
SetSoundFromMemory method
SetSoundFromNet method
SetSoundSync method
SetTemplateBinDir method
SetTotalTransparentFactor method
Events
AnimDLLDone event
CellClick event
ChangedSize event
Click event
DblClick event
KeyDown event
KeyUp event
MouseDown event
MouseIn event
MouseMove event
MouseOut event
MouseUp event
PaintDone event
PictureDLLDone event
SoundDone event
COM Objects
SurfaceColor object
SurfaceColor object properties
SurfaceColor.Color property
SurfaceColor.Color2 property
SurfaceColor.GradientFactor property
SurfaceColor.GradientType property
SurfaceColor.Render3DType property
TextDescriptor object
TextDescriptor object properties
TextDescriptor.Text property
TextDescriptor.Angle property
TextDescriptor.Antialias property
TextDescriptor.Border property
TextDescriptor.ColorBorder property
TextDescriptor.ColorHalo property
TextDescriptor.ColorHighlight property
TextDescriptor.ColorMouseOver property
TextDescriptor.ColorNormal property
TextDescriptor.ColorPressed property
TextDescriptor.ColorShadow property
TextDescriptor.ColorSolidBack property
TextDescriptor.ColorSolidBackShadow property
TextDescriptor.DoubleSpace property
TextDescriptor.OffsetX property
TextDescriptor.OffsetY property
TextDescriptor.SolidBack property
TextDescriptor.SolidBackShadow property
TextDescriptor.SpecialEffect property
TextDescriptor.SpecialEffectFactor property
TextDescriptor.TransparentFactor property
TextDescriptor.Visible property
Texture object
Texture object properties
Texture.ColorToMix property
Texture.Filepath property
Texture.LightIntensity property
Texture.Mode property
Texture.PercentageColorMix property
CellsManager object
CellsManager object methods
CellsManager.AddCell method
CellsManager.DeleteCell method
CellsManager.FindCell method
CellsManager.GetCellUniqueID method
CellsManager.GetCellPos method
CellsManager.GetCellSize method
CellsManager.GetCount method
CellsManager.GetLogFont method
CellsManager.SetCellPos method
CellsManager.SetCellSize method
CellsManager.SetLogFont method
CellsManager.SetPictureFromHandle method
CellsManager object properties
CellsManager.BackColor property
CellsManager.BorderColor property
CellsManager.BorderWidth property
CellsManager.PictureDisabled property
CellsManager.PictureHorzAlign property
CellsManager.PictureNormal property
CellsManager.PictureTranspFactor property
CellsManager.PictureVertAlign property
CellsManager.Text property
CellsManager.TextDescriptor property
CellsManager.TextHorzAlign property
CellsManager.TextVertAlign property
CellsManager.Visible property
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