Data Input Made Easy

The PropertiesList control (similar to the control used to manipulate properties in Visual Studio) provides an efficient, intuitive and visually compact way to handle data input with minimal coding and user interface design. The PropertiesList control natively supports the capture of both standard text / numeric values and more complex data items such as Color, Font, File names, pictures. Custom property types such as RTF or HTML can also be seamlessly supported, saving you valuable coding time and effort and providing an intuitive way for your users to input and manipulate a set of related values.

A wide range of properties are provided to allow you to tailor the look, feel and behavior of the PropertiesList to suit your particular requirement and User Interface design.

The PropertiesList control is as easy for customers to use as it is for the developer to configure and code with - don't take our word for it, try if for yourself!

Practical and comprehensive object model based design

The PropertiesList control presents a full logical object model (including PropertiesList, ListItem and PropertyItem objects and related collections) that allow simple manipulation and configuration of the control at runtime.

List configuration can easily be defined at design time using a comprehensive set of property pages or the provided stand-alone designer. PropertyList layouts and List layouts can be loaded and saved to disk at run time.

Full ownerdraw capabilities

The capabilities of the PropertiesList can be extended by you through use of the OwnerDraw event and related OwnerDrawCanvas object. The OwnerDrawCanvas provides an easy to use programming interface for implementing your own custom propertyitems.

Full demonstration and on-line help

The control setup package comes complete with a full context sensitive online help file, a set of sample list layouts and a detailed demonstration project.

Property Styles

Color Picker
PropertiesList contains a fully integrated drop down Color picker control. Clicking 'More Colors' shows a standard Color requester dialog or the 'Hexagon Picker' style dialog introduced in Microsoft FrontPage 2000.

Custom
Providing a button allows you to display custom dialogs in order to edit your own proprietary item types. You can also use the button property type for About boxes or to display help (for example).

Drop down list
Providing standard drop down combo type functionality, you are sure to want to use the drop down list property type. Cycling through the list by double clicking (as in Visual Studio) is supported.

Date
The date property type provides an integrated date picker, making it easier than ever for your users to input and manipulate date information. Date display format is fully configurable to suit your preferences / locale.

Font
Provides a hassle free way to implement font picking functionality.

File
Handles the windows file requesters to provide the familiar way to capture a filename from the user.

Folder
Provides similar functionality to the File property type, but displaying an integrated folder browse dialog box instead of a file dialog.

Picture
Provides a simple integrated viewer and file dialog functionality to provide a simple way for users to set and manipulate graphic files.

PropertiesList ActiveX Control is available as an electronic delivery only.