SftButton/OCX 2.5 - ActiveX Button Control

Does the standard button control leave you wanting more? We have designed our button control from scratch, with all the features that developers want from a button control.  No, ours doesn't do fancy shapes, which only end up confusing end-users (i.e., "regular folks").  Instead, we focus on giving developers the tools to write solid applications.  Our button control continues where the regular button control leaves off and gives you all of the following features:

• Easy to use ActiveX button control
• Supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, (including themes), Windows Server 2008 all the way back to Windows 98
• Optional drop down, great for popup menus
• Up to two images in each button control (bitmaps, icons, animations and Windows metafiles)
• Gradient fill background
• Single and multiline text
• Customizable Click event
• Definable auto-repeat interval
• Supports standard button and toggle button style
• Application defined colors even for border lines
• Fully supports .NET, C#, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6, Visual C++ (MFC, ATL), Delphi, Visual Studio and many more...
• Complete Internet Explorer support
• Small size ActiveX control requiring NO external run-time DLLs
• Includes digitally signed cabinet file
• Complete help integration with Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, including DynamicHelp help.
• UNICODE control for ANSI/DBCS/UNICODE support on Windows 98 through Windows Server 2008
• Standalone implementation, not a sub/superclassed button control (not based on Windows Button control class)
• Correct default button handling and outlining
• OLE drag & drop support
• Dual interfaces throughout for optimum performance
• ATL based control, no MFC DLLs, no VB runtime or other DLLs required

This list is by no means complete, yet all of these features are available in a royalty-free control which is just around 350 KB and does not need any additional external DLLs or run-time files.

 Use this ActiveX control with all popular languages, such as .NET, C#, VB.NET, Visual C++, Visual Basic 6, Delphi, Access and many more...

SftButton/OCX 2.5 provides basic button control features and extends these by offering a multitude of configuration options, events and methods.

The button label of each SftButton/OCX control offers up to two picture components and a single or multiple lines of text. In addition, a button can display an optional drop down button. This drop down button can be used to access dialogs, popup menus, etc. and is similar in function to a combo box drop down button.

The control offers a variety of alignment options for each image and the caption.  

Images in a SftButton/OCX control can be bitmaps, icons or Windows metafiles.

Numerous configuration options, properties, methods and events are available in this powerful button control.

To find out more about this product, download our product demo now. The demo includes working controls, so you can start using the controls today and test-drive them thoroughly in your application, before your purchase.

That's the good news. For the "not-so-good" news: If you like it, you will have to purchase the product to use it beyond the free 30 day trial. Of course, that's not all that terrible, considering all the features you'll get to use, along with the royalty-free distribution of the control with your completed end-user application.

And, don't forget, the product includes free support and all major updates for one entire year.

Please see our Product Overview page for included options and supported operating systems.