SftTree/DLL 6.0 is virtually 100% upward compatible from version 5.0 and earlier versions. The following major enhancements are now available in SftTree/DLL 6.0:

• Support for new image formats, such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, Exif, EMF+, EMF (GDI+ images) with full support for alpha-blended (translucent and semi-transparent) images
  
  
  

• Support for content windows, which are complete, user-defined windows that are rendered as one cell. Possible uses are to display Flash, Windows Media Player or Web browser controls, dialogs, and other child windows.
  
  

• New selection outline display style (see SetSelectionStyle) which supports a rounded outline rectangle with a gradient fill
  
  

• Transition effects for expand/collapse buttons and tree lines on all operating systems (similar to transition effects found on Windows Vista), see SFTTREE_CONTROL, iMouseOverTransitionEffect
  
  

  

• New function to draw a rounded selection outline rectangle (see DrawSelectionOutline)

• New SFTTREE_COLORS member supporting the new colors for selection outline rectangles

• New SFTTREE_CONTROL structure supporting the tree control attribute definition.

• Additional search modes matching items in response to characters typed by the user (see SetCharSearchMode)

• New built-in button styles (see SetButtons, SFTTREE_BUTTON_AUTOMATIC3 and SFTTREE_BUTTON_USERDEF)

• Functions to load GDI+ images from application resources (see SftTree_LoadGDIPlusImageFromResource and SftTree_FreeGDIPlusImageLoadedFromResource)

• Digitally signed DLLs

• DynamicHelp and help integration with Visual Studio 2008 (in addition to all others which were already supported in previous releases)

• More sample code in documentation

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