Crystal Toolkit is a Windows Forms (.NET Framework 2.0) control library written in C#. This is the fourth release and contains the following classes:
New in 0.70: Features.
CrystalImageGridView, CrystalFileCollector, CrystalThumbnailer:
- The Image Grid View class is a C# control that allows you to preview thumbnails in a scrollable grid view. You can dock this view in a split container in Windows Forms. There is a background thread that thumbnails the images from whatever folder you point it at. Don't like the way I thumbnail images or the way I store them? Implement my ICrystalThumbnailer interface and insert your own thumbnail class.
From previous version:
- CrystalGradientControl: a control that can either have a gradient background or a transparent background.
- CrystalLabel: a homegrown label control that can have a gradient or transparent background.
- CrystalTrackBar: a homegrown trackbar that can have a gradient or transparent background.
- CrystalToolStripTrackBar: a host for CrystalTrackBar that allows it to work in a ToolStrip.
Bonus: if you don't like CrystalTrackBar on a ToolStrip, this library also contains ToolStripTrackBar, which hosts System.Windows.Forms.TrackBar on the ToolStrip.
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.
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 070 (zip file, 880 kb)
