10Tec/vbAccelerator ImageList OCX
General info
Our demos use one ActiveX control, vbAccelerator ImageList, originally developed by Steve McMahon and published on his website www.vbaccelerator.com. We use this control instead of the standard Microsoft ImageList control from Visual Basic as the vbAccelerator version provides much more features and works properly in all available versions of Windows, including Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10.
During many years of the use of this excellent control a lot of bugs have been found by us and our customers. Unfortunately, Steve McMahon no longer supports his talented tools, but he gave us a permission to do that. As a result, the 10Tec version of vbAccelerator ImageList was created, and it is still being supported by us. In our version we have fixed all revealed bugs and implemented some enhancements, which make the control friendlier for the developer. The control was recompiled with a new class and program identifiers (CLSID and ProgID) in order to avoid any conflicts with the original version. All the changes made by us are reflected in the supplied What's New files.
Demo application
Below you see a screenshot of the demonstration application. It demonstrates the main functions you get with this enhanced ImageList control:
As you can see, the image list component allows you to draw the images on a surface using the selected, disabled or cut effects. At run-time, you can upload images into your image lists not only from a file on your hard drive, but also from a resource of your app or even from a VB PictureBox object. You can get any image from your image list as the standard VB Picture object as well.
And pay attention to the important fact: our implementation of ImageList supports 32-bit icons and PNG images with alpha channel!