Controls Components
PureComponents Controls is set of elegant user interface components used to create data entry forms. Set contains components that are easy to use and nice to look at. You will find that any data entry form is not complete without these components. Set contains also several decorative components that help with making your forms easier to use.
Appearance and Styles
EntrySet Controls offer the developers easy and effective way how to give to the applications professional look&feel. Every visual component can be adjusted according to your idea by means of several properties, which determine the look.
Here is the list of the basic properties:
BackColor
Background color of the component. If you set the color on Transparent, the background will be transparent. Also edit box and combo box support the transparency!
FadeColor a FillStyle
How to achieve the blending effect of two colors? BackColor represents the first color and the second color is set in FadeColor. Set the style of filling (blending) using FillStyle property.
BorderColor and BorderStyle
If the component supports the frame imaging (e.g. EditBox, ComboBox, ContainerPanel), you can set its color in BorderColor and the type of the line in BorderStyle. If BordeStyle=None, the line will not display.
Shape
This property determines the shape of the component. E.g. in EditBox you can set if the shape will be angular or if the corners will be rounded. At Label component the shape shows if you set the BackColor or turn on the label imaging.
Theme
This property determines how some components will be displayed, e.g. Button. That way you can set whether the Button will have common look or unusual look such as Vista.
At visual components, which display text, also these properties can be found:
ForeColor
This property determines the text color.
UnderlineColor and UnderlineStyle
If the component supports the underline, the color is set in UnderlineColor property and the look is set in UnderlineStyle. It is not ordinary underline, which is in Font property but it is special underline, which allows you to underline the text e.g. by red tilde as you can se in Microsoft Word.
Form Manager Styles
EntrySet Controls contain the tool, which can facilitate the work with styles. This tool is Form Manager component, which works as a container for styles. It works similarly as template in Microsoft Word. You create your styles in Form Manager, which you assign to controls on the form. If you then change the style settings, it shows at all the controls, which use the style
