10Tec/vbAccelerator ImageList

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 such latest versions of OS as Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

However, 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 supported by us. In our version we have fixed all the numerous revealed bugs and even 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 description files.

A more detailed look

First of all, we changed the interface part of the control, and now it became more handy in use in comparison to its original implementation. The control box on the form became bigger and now displays the name of the control instance. The property page dialog was highly redesigned so now you can do all actions on one default page without constant switches between the pages in the original version:

The control functionality was enhanced in many places. For instance, now it supports adding of images without specifying the mask color - in the original version you can only choose from the top-left pixel color or the specified color. Some new properties were added for this functionality and other features, and now all the aspects of the functionality can be controlled through the interface (the property page dialog or standard property browser) and from code.

The full list of all the improvements we made can be found on the What's New page.

Help to support - donate

Many users of our products find our implementation of vbAccelerator ImageList very useful, and they support our constant development by their donations. You can also help us to support this project by making a donation.

To do that, click the Donate link in the top-right part of this section. A special order page is opened, and you can donate any sum multiple of $10. You can control how many tens you donate changing the value in the Quantity field. Thank you!

Know what this image list control can do »