changelog.txt

skin components for design of your applicastions

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        Change History of SXSkinComponents Project
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--------- YOU WILL SEE SOON IN THE NEXT VERSIONS ---------
-- (the most global changes are on the top of the list) --

- New component: TSXSkinScrollBar
- New component: TSXSkinMemo
- New component: TSXSkinComboBox

------------------ VERSIONS DESCRIPTION ------------------

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*** VERSION 1.2.1 (January 21, 2007)
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* - GDI resources leak fixed
* - some memory leaks fixed
* - fixed some small bugs
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*** VERSION 1.2.0 (January 14, 2007)
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* - TSXSkinUpDown component added
* - TSXSkinSpinEdit component added
* - optimized variable rectangles and regions parsing
* - multimonitor support bug fixed
* - fixed bug: form had been frozen on some mouse events
* - small fixes in skin-files
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*** VERSION 1.1.0 (September 2, 2006)
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* - TSXSkinForm component added
* - developed MSStyle-to-SXSkin Converter
* - added new drawing Element - Style Element: can be used
*   for nested General Styles drawing
* - added new skin style type: Selective Skin Style
* - added complete description of skin.ini-file
* - Freeform Skin Demo added
* - JPEG and PNG images with transparent color value can
*   be used now for specifying regions (e.g. MouseCapture)
* - fixed C++Builder 6 installation bug: changed all
*   hyphens in files names to underline characters
* - fixed Library paths in SXSkinComponents packages
* - extended math interpreter (now can evaluate logical
*   and comparison operations)
* - some bugs fixed in Graphics32 library
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*** VERSION 1.0.5 (May 7, 2006)
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* - Delphi 7 package added
* - added new component: TSXStoredSkin
* - compressed skins support added (compressed skin is a
*   *.zip-file with skin.sxs and grphic files inside)
* - compressed skins can be stored in EXE-file of a
*   skinnable application (component TSXStoredSkin used)
* - skin "Internally Drawn" was added to the package, is
*   used for the default drawing in the designer and is
*   automatically included to all executables of projects
* - significantly changed SXS file format, so old skin
*   files (from 1.0.1 to 1.0.4) are not supported now
* - improved the Template Project (zipped and stored
*   skins support added)
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*** VERSION 1.0.4 (April 15, 2006)
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* - developed mouse capture engine based on CaptureMouseAt
*   function and MouseCaptureRegion property of skin style
* - created designer editor for SXSkinLibrary.SkinFile
*   and SXSkinLibrary.SkinFile2 properties
* - added new parameters of ImageElement: ResizeMode
*   (None, Tile, Stretch), StretchFilter (Nearest, Linear,
*   Spline, Mitchell, Lanczos), Resized Width/Height,
*   Image Offset X/Y
* - added new Skin Style Element: TEXT
* - fixed bugs in Circle, CircleHFade and CircleVFade,
*   renamed Circle* to Ellipse*, SetCircle to SetEllipse
* - added WindowsXP themed controls manifest to fix
*   TSXSkinEdit flickering bug
* - fixed TSXSkinEdit caret flickering bug, but only for
*   static background
* - some small improvements
* - fixed lots of small bug
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*** VERSION 1.0.3 (April 7, 2006)
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* - C++Builder 6 and 2006 packages added
* - created Ini2Sxs skin file converter to convert files
*   skin.ini to binary data format
* - switched from Graphics32-1.8 to Graphics32-1.8.1
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*** VERSION 1.0.2 (April 4, 2006)
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* - added new component: TSXSkinPaintBox
* - fixed property SXSkinEdit.Text processing bug
* - added demo sources to the package
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*** VERSION 1.0.1 (March 31, 2006)
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* - First public release
* - Now only Delphi 6, 7, 2005 and 2006 are supported
* - Added a Template Project to the distribution package
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 Copyright (C) 2006-2007, Alexey Sadovnikov
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