Introduction

3D Button API (Application Program Interface) is a SDK (Software Development Kit), developed by MultiMedia Soft, that will give you the possibility to create new look & feel buttons inside your applications and to change your existing user interfaces with few modifications to the code.

With this new three-dimensional button engine, programmers can give a new look to their windows, forms and dialog boxes, using a variety of shapes, surfaces, textures, bitmaps, animations, sounds, colors and fonts.

The strength of 3D Button API is that it doesn't require to redevelop your already existing user interfaces because, through a set of intuitive-named functions, it will transform the buttons already available inside your applications from the old-fashioned flat-square button into a real 3D button, no matter if they are Push buttons, Checkboxes or Radio buttons (also known as CommandButton, Checkbox or OptionButton if your development environment is Visual Basic).

Deluxe edition	Contains the Professional edition of the SDK and the full version of our 3D Button Visual Editor application.
Professional edition	Supports all of the SDK functions.
Light edition	A subset of the features available inside the Professional edition.

	Light	Professional	Deluxe
Buttons caching system
Custom shaped buttons
Pictures, textures and sounds support
Surface coloring in different button states
Multiple texts support (up to 9 at the same time)
Cells support
Support for Radio buttons and Checkboxes
Anti-aliasing for button surface borders and texts
New button surfaces (Aqua, Plastic, Gel, etc.)
3D linear gradients
Text effects: halo, transparency, double width, solid background, rotation angle
Container Level functions.
Templates management
Tooltips
Export of button images
Download of sounds, pictures and animations from the Internet
Alpha channel transparency
Full version of 3D Button Visual Editor

In any case, inside this help file, you will see a remark that will state if a function is available only inside the Professional Version.

As an initial guide, inside the Tutorials section of this help file you will find a lot of tutorials that will help you getting the best from this product.

For redistribution of the control with your application, we recommend you to take a close look to the Files to be included with your application section.