An outlook styled sidebar control
VLButtonBar is an advanced activeX button bar that can be used to incorporate MS Outlook styled navigation sidebar, vertical menu as well as visual basic style tool palette into your applications.
The control provides a variety of orientation and layout combinations for groups and buttons to suite your specific needs. Also, the control can automatically calculate the appropriate size for buttons based on button picture size, button caption and the font, or you can specify a custom button size as per your requirements.
Design time, WYSIWYG group and button wizard VLButtonBar offers a variety of gradient styles for the group headers as well as buttons. You can build great looking navigation system of tool palette in minutes.
With Unicode support added in version 3.0, you can now develop and deliver applications for global market. VLButtonBar also supports far eastern languages in native (MBSC) format.
A variety of styles of buttons and support for true color icons let you deliver applications with great looks.
Its design time WYSWYG designer wizard ensures that you can add groups and buttons to VLButtonBar at design time and build your application's navigation system with minimum amount of code. With this wizard, you exactly know how your navigation system will look like at runtime; there is no need for trial runs to fine tune the appearance of your navigation system.
A fully functional evaluation copy is available for free download.