Windows Forms on Steroids

Runtime Form Customization - Runtime Control Customization - Screen Resolution Independence - MS Money Style Interface - Look & Feel Standardization...

There is so much to say about the ExpressLayout Control -- unfortunately, words are not enough to fully describe its power and flexbility. ExpressLayout represents an entirely new way for Delphi and C++ Builder programmers to design and manage the layout of Windows forms. Once you start using it, your applications will never be the same again.

At the heart of the ExpressLayout Control lies a basic concept -- You place controls within its 'groups' -- the equivalent of container controls such as TPanel or TGroupBox. This in turn automatically gives your applications unique design time and runtime customization capabilities via a docking metaphor similar to the Delphi/C++ Builder IDE.

With the ExpressLayout Control, you are freed from manual, pixel-by-pixel positioning of individual controls and liberated from runtime screen resolution problems so common in Delphi/C++ Builder applications. Simply said, the ExpressLayout Control takes the miserably tedious process of UI layout and turns it upside down.

By linking the controls on your form - such as your grids, page controls, editors, etc -- to the Layout Control, you immediately provide your products with highly sophisticated layouts, which end-users can manipulate as desired at runtime.

Total Control, Flexibility, and Power
The Only No Limits Form Design Framework for the VCL

Features and Benefits

Users often have use for only a small portion of the power an application provides. This small portion, however, varies significantly from one user to another. This results in applications that have extremely complex data entry screens with little or no customization ability for the user. In other words, a user’s screen is often cluttered by controls that have little or no use within a given organization.

The extensive customization features of the ExpressLayout Control give you all the tools you will need to combat UI “bloat” - and it will place power back into the hands of each individual user - in a manner that has never been available before in any programming environment. This is accomplished by allowing users to layout and manage their own UI -- as their needs dictate -- in a manner that suits their business requirements best -- without seeking assistance from programmers or programmer oriented tools.

• Full Resolution Independence -- Using Microsoft UI standards found in applications such as Outlook®
• Comprehensive Design and Runtime Customization -- Both developers and end-users can fully customize Windows forms via an intuitive docking system.
• Auto-Management -- Control groups and individual control elements are automatically managed by the Layout Control. You never worry about pixel-by-pixel positioning.
• Unlimited Nesting -- Control groups and control elements can be organized in a myriad of different ways - to give your application the functionality and ease of use it requires.
• Runtime Creation of Groups -- Users can add groups as they wish.
• Intricate UI Control -- From the manner in which captions are displayed, to the offsets between individual UI elements - to hot-tracking - Everything is under your control.
• MS Money® Style UI -- You can build Windows forms that look and behave like those found in MS Money.
• Vertical and Horizontal Orientation
• Full Persistence -- ExpressLayout Control supports full persistence -- You can save settings to the Registry, INI file, and to a Stream.
• Style Support -- Visual styles allow you to control the look and feel of your applications.

ExpressLayout Control is available as an electronic delivery only.