Crystal Toolkit is a Windows Forms (.NET Framework 2.0) control library written in C#. This is the eighth release and contains the following updates:
Bug fixes.
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CrystalGradientControl-derived classes, including CrystalLabel and CrystalPictureBox (but not CrystalTrackBar): Transparent backgrounds were not working previously. To set a transparent background, set BackColor property to the Transparent color. You can do this in design mode or programmatically. This makes TransparentMode=True. When this occurs, Color1 and Color2 are ignored. To get the Gradient color mode to work, set BackColor back to Control (or any other non-Transparent value) and then set Color1 and Color2 to the Gradient color scheme.
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CrystalThumbnailer: Exceptions are now caught when an error occurs when thumbnailing images.
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CrystalImageGridView: Bug fixes for keyboard navigation. When images were selected and right-mouse click inside the middle of the selection, the selected image list is retained.
This release comes in a ZIP file. Simply unzip the contents to your hard drive, navigate to the root Attilan folder, and double click on CrystalDemo.sln. This solution file contains the Crystal Toolkit plus demo programs. Just build the solution (which compiles the CrystalToolkit library first) and run the demo programs to see how they work. You can run the demo programs without building the source by clicking on "StartDemo.bat" in the root Attilan folder or CrystalDemoLauncher.exe in Attilan\bin.
I've tested the demos under Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista. Needless to say, buyers beware, this is alpha software and it's free open-source code: you get what you pay for! I'd welcome any feedback, bugs (or bug fixes), and thumb-bitmap replacements. Send email to richard [at] attilan {dot} com.
Download: Crystal Toolkit 077 (zip file, 8 mb)
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