PureComponents Navigator is a .NET WinForms component

PureComponents Navigator

Outlook Bar Style .NET WinForms component

PureComponents Navigator is a new and unique type of .NET WinForms component. PureComponents Navigator is based on the well known Outlook Bar style but with extended functionality allowing the use of Navigator for many more possibilities.

PureComponents Navigator brings two basic features:

To developers - possibility, how to make the application architecture more simple and how to make the code more easy to understand.

To application users - tool to use the application, which is easy to use, nice to look at and always helpful.

PureComponents Navigator will free you of complicated and messy toolbars. Users will stop asking how to use your application and they will never get lost in the application.

PureComponents Navigator Basic Features

PureComponents Navigator -Object model based on the TreeView component
Advanced functions for the node position change: MoveUp, MoveDown, MoveLeft and MoveRight
Creation and finding of nodes using functions AddNodeByPath and GetNodeByPath
Identification of the node with the Key property and getting the node with GetNodeByKey function
WYSIWYG designer with full support of drag&drop, clipboard and undo&redo
Direct access to group and node properties in the Form window
Transformation of the TreeView structure to the Navigator just with drag&drop
PureComponents Navigator structure creation from the text stored in the clipboard
Colors and styles that are possible to use within single group, node, at the node's substructure or even at the whole Navigator
With PureComponents Navigator it is possible to set style inheritance in the Navigator's hierarchical structure
Text uderlining using several styles - dash, dot, solid or tilde
Highlighting the selected node or flashing some important node and its whole path

PureComponents Navigator Object Model

Navigator is created from Groups and Nodes. Using Groups you can divide your application into several elementary parts. Every each group then consists of hierarchical structure of Nodes. Navigator's object model brings these advantages:

Is based on the conventions from .NET Framework
It is influenced by the TreeView component, so it will look familiar
Is extended with several sophisticated functions, which saves development time

PureComponents Navigator - Sophisticated Functions

Navigator contains several sophisticated functions, these can free you of routine programming which repeats in every project again and again. Some of these functions are:

Methods MoveUp, MoveDown, MoveLeft and MoveRight which you can use to move Nodes in their hierarchical structure
AddNodeByPath can create Node together with all parent Nodes
Key property uniquely indentifies some Node in the whole Navigator
Using the GetNodeByKey you can get the Node by its Key property
Transformation of the TreeView structure into the Navigator using drag&drop
Navigator structure creation from the text stored in the Clipboard

PureComponents Navigator - Powerful Designer

Extensive WYSIWYG designer allows to create fully functional model of the application navigator within minutes. Main features are:

Groups and Nodes are individual entities within Navigator, you can set their properties directly in the Properties Window
Ddesigner is being driven using Action Menu which has, unlike classical menu, extended functionality
Adding Groups and Nodes using clipboard from other Navigator
Using drag&drop to arrange nodes within the Navigator changing the order and indent level of nodes

PureComponents Navigator - Styles and Color Schemes

Using colors it is possible to modify Navigator to your needs. Using styles it is much more simple to alter the Navigator's look&feel. To alter Navigator's visual style you can:

Set color and font for each Group and Node
Set the style and color of treelines
Select the navigator's border style
Use Color Schemes from the predefined finetuned set of combinations
Use predefined style for Groups or Nodes
Take advantage of the style inheritance in the hierarchical structure

PureComponents Navigator - Context Highlight

Navigator contains graphical elements that can help you to point out some kind of information or to alert the user of your application. You can:

Highlight the text using one of the four types of underline - dash, dot, solid and tilde
Choose the color of the underline
Use the Flash function to blink the selected node or any other node

PureComponents Navigator - Developer Benefits

Clear and understandable object model ensures the easy to use approach
TreeView Grabber function helps with comfortable transformation of your applications that use TreeView component
Using the Build from Clipboard function it is possible to speed up the design based on the customers specification
Content of the Navigator can be changed using drag&drop or using clipboard, you can even copy the nodes between several Navigator instances, this helps you with the flexible reusability in other projects
Highly developed event model gives the developer full control over the Navigator
Navigator is developed in just one single DLL file (assembly) which gives you the simple distribution
Using the WYSIWYG designer it is possible to visualy create the structure without writing even one single line of code

PureComponents Navigator Operating System for Deployment: Windows 2000, Windows XP

PureComponents Navigator Compatible:Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic .NET 2003, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET 2003, Visual C++ .NET, Visual C# .NET 2003, Visual C# .NET, Borland(R) Delphi[TM] 7.0, .NET Common Language Runtime V1.1, .NET Common Language Runtime V1.0,

Up to 4 Developers License system saves money for typical development team and smaller but growing teams, for one price you get the license scheme that allows you to use one license key on up to four machines.