FramePlus Overview

FramePlus extends Visual Basic’s application framework in five main ways:

• Split windows. Application windows may be split into multiple panes, in order to show different kinds of information simultaneously, in an organized and comprehensible format.
• Resizable, dockable windows. The user can dock VB forms or controls to any side of a window, or resize them into a more convenient area.
• Add Icons to menu items, FramePlus supports adding icons to VB menu items. When a menu item is selected, it could show a hot image that has same look of flat style button of new toolbar control.
• Dockable toolbars. Moveable, dockable toolbars can be docked to any side of the window or floated anywhere on the screen. These toolbars support the newest toolbar features of Microsoft common control such as flat style button, hot button image, and dropdown button, in addition, capable of creating drop-down list boxes and comboboxes with custom pictures and fonts.
• Statusbars. An enhanced statusbar, capable of displaying moving text, progress bars or the status of toggleable keys (such as caps lock or insert) is available.

Enterprise Edition Features

• Use docking window and docking toolbar in conjunction with alignable VB controls and OCXs such as Picture Box, MS Toolbar, MS Statusbar, and Coolbar. With a simple function call, the Frameplus allows these alignable controls participating the docking windows layout managment.
• Rich docking styles. In standard version, the docking windows and toolbars always take the entire width of the docking frame if they are docked horizontally. Now developers can specify the preference order of each docking side i.g. which side has preference to take the width/height. For example, VB IDE docking style: the top docked window has preference to take entire width, then left and right docked window take height left by top docked windows, and the bottom docked window has lowest preference. It takes the width left by the both left and right docked windows.
• The Enterprise allows developers to change the window splitting schema dynamically at runtime.
• New events are added to FormEx and StatusbarEx objects. The Frameplus Application Wizard source code provides for an example that demos how to automate your application creation with the advanced features provided by Frameplus Object Library.

All products include source code for VB5 & VB6.