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BusinessSkinForm Changelog

What's new in BusinessSkinForm 12.30

Sep 12, 2021
  • added: support of RAD Studio 11 Alexandria

New in BusinessSkinForm 12.20 (Jun 4, 2020)

  • Added: support of RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney

New in BusinessSkinForm 12.10 (Nov 24, 2018)

  • Added: support of RAD Studio 10.3 Rio

New in BusinessSkinForm 12.02 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added:
  • Support of RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo

New in BusinessSkinForm 11.06 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE8

New in BusinessSkinForm 11.05 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • updated: code for TbsSkinCheckListBox control
  • improved: TbsSkinEdit control drawing with left and right buttons in designing time
  • fixed: copy / cut / paste TbsRibbon control in designing time
  • added: optimizations in code for TbsRibbon and TbsRibbonPage controls

New in BusinessSkinForm 11.0 (Mar 19, 2015)

  • added: new Office 2016 style for Ribbon UI controls (new skins, changes in skin format and behaviour)
  • added: new Office 2016 skins (blue, green, orange, purple)
  • updated: SkinBuilder tool (new Office 2016 style + improvements)
  • improved: layered borders skin format and behaviour
  • improved: Ribbon UI controls
  • updated: skins
  • updated: demos
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.80 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • added: important changes and improvements for mouse tracking in controls
  • added: optimizations in code
  • updated: demos

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.77 (Feb 9, 2015)

  • added: optimizations in edit controls
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.GetNormalBoundsRect method
  • improved: behaviour of menus on multi-monitor systems

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.75 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • added: ShowThumbnails property for all shell dialogs
  • added: MinClientWidth, MinClientHeight, MaxClientWidth, MaxClientHeight properties for TbsBusinessSkinForm component (min and max values for client part of the form)
  • improved: TbsSkinMainMenuBar control (behaviour with scrolling items)
  • improved: items drawing in listview controls

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.72 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • fixed: problem with loading TbsSkinFileListView control when ThumbnailOptions.Enabled
  • improved: TbsSkinOpenPictureDialog

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.71 (Nov 29, 2014)

  • improved: Thumbnails support in TbsSkinShellListView control (optimized threads and memory usage)

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.70 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • added: a lot of improvements and changes in shell conrols and shell dialogs
  • added: Thumbnail support for TbsSkinFileListView (available for Win XP or later)
  • added: Thumbnail support for all shell dialogs
  • added: improvements to the TbsSkinMonthCalendar and TbsSkinDateEdit controls

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.50 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE7 (32-bit)
  • added: improvements for TbsSkinOfficeListBox, TbsSkinOfficeComboBox, TbsSkinHorzListBox, TbsSkinGridView, TbsSkinGallery controls
  • improved: edit controls
  • added: improvements and optimizations in drawing methods

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.42 (May 5, 2014)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE6

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.41 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • added: improvements in bsSkinPrinter.pas unit
  • added: TbsSkinCheckComboBox.UseSkinSize property
  • fixed: TbsSkinPasswordEdit behavour when SkinData = nil
  • added: some optimizations in code
  • renamed packages

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.40 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE5 (32 bit)
  • improved: drawing of TbsSkinComboBox control in disabled state
  • improved: TbsSkinTreeView control

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.35 (Jul 16, 2013)

  • improved: Ribbon UI Application Menu behaviour
  • improved: scrollbars - now they can works as in Mac OS (you can define small size without buttons in skin)
  • added: some optimizations in code
  • updated: demos
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.31 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • added: TbsSkinListView.AlternateRow property (enable alternate background for row(DrawSkin property must be True))
  • added: TbsSkinOfficeListBox.AlternateRow, TbsSkinOfficeComboBox.AlternateRow property
  • added: improvements in TbsBusinessSkinForm component and TbsRibbon control

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.30 (May 25, 2013)

  • added: Caption property for TbsBusinessSKinForm.QuickButtons (buttons in form's caption)
  • added: Caption property for TbsRibbon.Buttons (buttons in the right area of ribbon control)
  • updated and improved drawing of TbsBusinessSKinForm.QuickButtons
  • updated and improved drawing of TbsRibbon.Buttons
  • improved drawing of TbsRibbon control
  • updated and improved some ribbon skins
  • updated demos for ribbon UI controls
  • added: some improvements and optimizations in source code
  • updated SkinBuilder tool

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.20 (Apr 30, 2013)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE4 (32 bit)

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.10 (Nov 24, 2012)

  • improved: Windows 8 support
  • improved: ribbon controls
  • fixed: problem with mouse wheel messages in Rad Studio XE2-XE3

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.06 (Oct 12, 2012)

  • added: TbsSkinMDITabsBar.ShowChildIcon propery (now tabs can have icon of mdi child)
  • added: TbsSkinFindDialog.CloseDialog method
  • added: TbsSkinReplaceDialog.CloseDialog method
  • added: some optimizations in code
  • improved: some skins

New in BusinessSkinForm 10.05 (Sep 20, 2012)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE3 (32 bit)

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.62 (May 12, 2012)

  • added: support of TbsButtonGroup.SkinDataName property (now it can be different)
  • improved: transparent inplace editors in grids

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.61 (Mar 24, 2012)

  • added: improvements in TbsSkinNumericEdit, TbsSkinDBNumericEdit and TbsSkinSpinEdit, TbsSkinDBSpinEdit controls
  • added: some optmizations in source code

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.60 (Feb 25, 2012)

  • added support for shortcuts in ribbon's page
  • added new TbsSkinMessage.MessageDlg... methods with default button value
  • added TbsSkinRibbon.OnPageChanging, TbsSkinRibon.AppMenu.OnShowingMenu events for integration with SmartEffects VCL
  • added special code for integraion ribbon controls and SmartEffects VCL (see new demos in SmartEffects VCL)

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.56 (Feb 21, 2012)

  • Improved: shell controls and dialogs

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.55 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • added: default font in components and skins is "Tahoma" now (old was "Arial")
  • added: improvements in drawing of controls
  • updated: all skins from all collections
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: all demos

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.50 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • added: Touch property to controls (for Rad Studio 2010-XE2)
  • added: support for unicode hints (for use with Tnt unicode controls)
  • added: optimizations in code for layered borders
  • improved: TbsRibbon control

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.45 (Oct 26, 2011)

  • added: TbsRibbon.AppButtonCaption, TbsRibbon.AppButtonMargin, TbsRibbon.AppButtonSpacing properties
  • updated: all skins with Ribbon UI elements
  • updated: Ribbon UI demos
  • improved: shell dialogs
  • updated: resource images in shell dialogs and font dialog (added new HQ png images for buttons)

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.40 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE2 (32 bit)

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.35 (May 5, 2011)

  • added: TbsSkinRichEdit.Transparent, TbsSkinRichEdit.WallPaper properties
  • added: TbsSkinPanel.EmptyDrawing propertry
  • added: captions for items in the TbsSkinToolBarEx control
  • added: TbsSkinToolBarEx.ShowCaptions property
  • improved: TbsSkinCategoryButtons, TbsSkinButtonGroup controls
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.32 (Apr 18, 2011)

  • added: TbsSkinMemo.Wallpaper property (see UseCustomFont project in demo-pack to test this property and transparency mode of control)

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.31 (Apr 7, 2011)

  • added: TbsSkinMDITabsBar.ShowAddButton, TbsSkinMDITabsBar.OnAddButtonClick (button to add mdi child (as in Opera, Mozilla browsers))
  • improved: edit controls (additional optimization in drawing)
  • improved: TbsSkinDBCtrlGrid control

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.30 (Mar 24, 2011)

  • updated and improved: all edits, memos controls, grid's inplace editors (better drawing methods and behaviour on bitmap background)
  • added: TbsSkinMemo.Transparent property
  • updated and improved: all grid controls in transparency mode and with wallpaper (better drawing methods and behaviour on bitmap background)
  • improved: Ribbon UI controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: demos
  • improved: skins

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.27 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • improved: behaviour of cursor when layered borders are resizing
  • improved: chinese support for TbsSkinMonthCalendar control
  • added: a lot of improvements and optimization to controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.25 (Feb 8, 2011)

  • added: TbsSkinMainMenuBar.ToolBarMode, TbsSkinMainMenuBar.ToolBarModeItemTransprent properties (now control can paint as toolbar)
  • added: a lot of improvements and optimization to controls
  • improved: drawing of controls with big fonts (you must change UseSkinSize, UseSkinFont and DefaultFont properties of controls)

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.20 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • added: TbsSkinMainMenuBar.UseSkinSize property (now control can have any size with any big font (set TbsSkinMainMenuBar.UseSkinSize to False, set TbsSkinMainMenuBar.UseSkinFont to False, set TbsSkinMainMenuBar.DefaultFont, TbsSkinMainMenuBar.DefaultHeight property))
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.UseSkinSizeInMenu (now menu items can have any size with any big font (set TbsBusinessSkinForm.UseSkinSizeInMenu to False, set TbsBusinessSkinForm.UseSkinFontInMenu to False, set TbsBusinessSkinForm.DefaultMenuItemFont, set bsBusinessSkinForm.DefaultMenuItemHeight property))
  • updated and improved: skin-core for menus
  • added: new cool HQ skins: Ubuntu, Ubuntu_Ext, Ubuntu_Aero
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.15 (Dec 28, 2010)

  • improved: skin format for TbsSkinPageControl, TbsSkinTabControl
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: skins

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.14 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • updated: drawing of TbsAppMenu control (Ribbon UI Application Menu) - now items have left alignment
  • improved: behaviour of TbsAppMenu control
  • fixed: TbsSkinOfficeGallery.OnItemClick, TbsSkinOfficeGridView.OnItemClick event execute in loading mode
  • improved: adjustment of the form size when skin change (TbsBusinessSkinForm.ClientWidth 0 and TbsBusinessSkinForm.ClientHeight 0)
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.12 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinOfficeGridView control (see Ribbon UI demo to see how you can use this control in Ribbon UI Application menu)
  • added: optmizations in source code
  • improved: TbsRibbon control
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.10 (Dec 7, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinOfficeGallery control (ribbon gallery analogue)
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.Move and TbsBusinessSkinForm.SetBounds method (these methods automatically set form position with layered border and without it)
  • improved: TbsSkinHorzListBox control
  • improved: behaviour of MDI forms
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.05 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • added: scrollbars for MDI-client area (see TbsBusinessSkinForm.ShowMDIScrollBars property)
  • updated: skin-core for MDI applications
  • updated: behaviour of the MDI main form and childs (now you can create excellent MDI applications with additional features)
  • updated: MDI demo, Ribbon UI MDI demo

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.01 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • added: PopupMenu property (public) for buttons in TbsRibbon control (buttons in right-top area)
  • added: mouse wheel support for TbsAppMenu (Ribbon Application Menu)
  • added: TbsMDITabsBar.DblClickChildMove property (if True then if you dblclick on the tab then child move to (0, 0) position - easy way to work faster with multiple childs)
  • added: support for TbsSkinCalendar.TransparentMode = True
  • added: Ribbon UI MDI demo
  • updated: MDI demo
  • improved: drawing of TbsMDITabsBar
  • improved: scroll of TbsSkinScrollPanel, TbsSkinToolBar TbsRibbonPage, TbsAppMenuPage (when CanScroll = True)
  • fixed: scrollbar not work correctly in TbsAppMenu menu when top item have page
  • fixed: border of mdi child blink sometimes if it receive WM_NCACTIVATE message in Windows Vista and Windows 7

New in BusinessSkinForm 9.0 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • improved and updated: skin format of layered borders
  • improved and updated: format of skin-objects
  • improved and updated: skin format for Ribbon UI elements
  • improved: behaviour of layered borders (when border move and resize with form)
  • improved: skin format for dialog window (added special close button for form's caption in skins)
  • added: new drawing methods for skin-objects in layered borders
  • added: expand images for TreeView in skins
  • added: scrolling for TbsSkinAppMenu (Ribbon Application Menu)
  • added: PopupMenu support for TbsBusinessSkinForm.QuickButtons
  • added: checkboxes for TbsSkinOfficeListBox control
  • added: BeginUpdateItems and EndUpdateItems methods for TbsSkinOfficeListBox, TbsSkinOfficeComboBox
  • added: TbsSkinListView.OnDrawSkinSubItem event (event for drawing subitems when TbsSkinListView.DrawSkin=True)
  • added: a lot of small improvements, drawing optimizations in many controls
  • added: new "SkyFi_Ext", "SkyFi_Aero" skins
  • updated: all skins (last version of skins work correctly only with latest version of BusinessSkinForm)
  • updated: demos
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.71 (Oct 29, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinScrollBox.ScrollToControl method
  • improved: rewritten TbsSkinDateEdit, TbsSkinDBDateEdit controls
  • improved: drawing of TbsSkinDBGrid control

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.70 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • added: ItemSkinDataName, HeaderSkinDataName, HeaderLeftAlignmnet properties to the TbsSkinOfficeListBox control
  • added: HeaderSkinDataName, HeaderLeftAlignmnet properties to the TbsSkinLinkBar control
  • added: OnShowEditor, OnHideEditor events for grid-controls
  • added: improvements in skin-core
  • added: new skin "ITunes10" to the skin collection

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.67 (Oct 19, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinToolBarEx.ArrowImages property (now you can customize arrows in scroll buttons (set your png images for active and normal states))
  • added: examples of our png images for TbsSkinToolBarEx.ArrowImages property in demo-pack
  • added: TbsSkinToolbarEx.BeginUpdateItems and TbsSkinToolbarEx.EndUpdateItems methods
  • improved: editor controls
  • improved: scroll methods and behaviour of scollbuttons in TbsSkinScrollPanel, TbsSkinToolbar, TbsRibbonPage, TbsAppMenuPage controls
  • fixed: caption not changed in TbsSkinCalculator dialog when SkinData.ResourceStrData nil
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • added: cool HQ skins "HUD", "HUD_Ext", "HUD_Aero"

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.65 (Oct 7, 2010)

  • updated: text drawing on layered borders (now text on layered window have alpha = 255 and borders of the text smoothly pass to layered window)
  • updated: effects drawing (glow, shadow, reflection) for text in layered borders (now effects smoothly pass to layered window)
  • improved: now text and effects for text are drawn more excellently in layered borders and in layered borders, which have blur alpha blend effect in Windows Vista, 7 for Aero interface
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: skins collections
  • improved: drawing of QuickButtons on layered borders with images from TbsPngImageList
  • improved: drawing of items in TreeView controls when DrawSkin = True

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.60 (Sep 16, 2010)

  • improved: skin format of layered borders
  • improved: behaviour of layered borders
  • improved: behaviour of edit-controls in design time
  • improved: skin format of some Ribbon UI elements
  • updated: skins with layered borders and ribbon elements
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.56 (Sep 4, 2010)

  • added: support for Rad Studio XE

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.55 (Aug 28, 2010)

  • added: FixedColSizing property to TbsSkinGrid and TbsSkinDrawGrid controls (now you can resize fixed cells from first column)
  • added: ColSizingWithLine to TbsSkinGrid, TbsSkinDrawGrid and TbsSkinDBGrid controls (now you can resize columns from full height of vertical lines)
  • added: TreeShowLines, TreeButtonImageList, TreeButtonExpandImageIndex, TreeButtonNoExpandImageIndex to TbsSelectDirectoryDialog dialog (now you can customize expand button and lines of shell treeview control in dialog)
  • added: a lot of optimizations and improvements in controls and dialogs
  • improved: MDI support
  • improved: skins form "layered borders" and "ribbon UI"collections
  • updated: demos
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.51 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • improved: drawing of ListView and TreeView control when DrawSkin = True
  • added: now ListView and TreeView can repaint items (Drawskin = True) with external image list (as in shell controls)
  • added: DrawSkin property to shell controls: TbsSkinFileListView, TbsSkinDirTreeView (now shell controls paint items with bitmap-selection, skin checkboxes, lines)
  • added: TbsSkinData.DlgTreeViewDrawSkin, TbsSkinData.DlgListViewDrawSkin (enable / disable DrawSkin property of listview and treeview controls in dialogs(shell dialogs))
  • updated: help
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.50 (Aug 17, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinTreeView.DrawSkin property (If True then control paint items with skin elements (bitmap-selection, lines, buttons);
  • also now controls can use png-images from TbsPngImageList)
  • added: TbsSkinTreeView.ButtonImageList, TbsSkinTreeView.ButtonExpandImageIndex, TbsSkinTreeView.ButtonNoExpandImageIndex properties (images for expanding button. Now you can use your image for expanding button (DrawSkin must be True))
  • added: TbsSkinListView.DrawSkin, TbsSkinListView.DrawSkinLines (If True then control paint item with skin elements (bitmap-selection, checkboxes, gird lines);
  • also now controls can use png-images from TbsPngImageList))
  • added: TbsSkinSlider.ThumbImageList, TbsSkinSlider.ThumbImageIndex, TbsSkinSlider.ThumbImageActiveIndex property
  • (now you can use your image for thumb from any image list (for example, from TbsPngImageList))
  • added: optimizations in source code
  • improved: TbsSkinButtonsBar control
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.42 (Jul 5, 2010)

  • improved: form updating when you change SkinData.ShowLayeredBorders property in real time (with full layered border)
  • added: some small improvements in SkinBuilder
  • added: optimizations in source code
  • added: demonstration of global font changing when loading skin in "MainDemo"

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.41 (Jul 1, 2010)

  • improved: working with actions in buttons
  • fixed: shell dialog not execute if folder not exist
  • added: DlgInitialDir property to TbsSkinFileEdit and TbsSkinSaveFileEdit controls
  • added: some small improvements in different controls
  • added: cool new HQ skins: "Laconic" and "Laconic_Ext"

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.40 (May 30, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinPageControl.ButtonTabSkinDataName (use this property when TabStyle = tsButtons or tsFlatButtons; now conrtol can draw tabs as buttons)
  • added: TbsSkinDivider control - special divider with alpha-channel (for example, you can use it in toolbar)
  • improved: drawing for TbsSkinSpeedButton control in flat mode
  • improved: working with TbsSkinRibbon control in designing mode
  • improved: TbsSkinShellListView control
  • improved: shell dialogs
  • improved: magnetic method for forms with full layered borders
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.37 (May 19, 2010)

  • improved: behaviour of TbsSkinAppMenu control (Ribbon UI)
  • added: some small improvements in different controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: demos
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.35 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • improved: Ribbon UI controls
  • added: new SkinBuilder, which is based on native Ribbon UI controls and skins

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.30 (Apr 14, 2010)

  • added: ToolBarImageList property to all shell dialogs (now you can customize images in buttons, for example,
  • you can use TbsSkinPngImageList and add png images to shell dialogs)
  • added: ButtonsImageList property for TbsSkinFontDialog, TbsSkinTextDialog components (now you can customize images in buttons)
  • added: new Execute method to TbsSkinSelectSkinsFromFolders (now this dialog can work with compressed and uncompressed skins (see help))
  • added: a lot of small improvements and optimizations in controls, forms, dialogs
  • added: TbsSkinButton.CheckedMode and TbsSkinSpeedButton.CheckedMode property (use this property to on/off some option)
  • updated: TbsSkinCalculator component
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: help
  • updated: demos

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.28 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • added: optimizations in skin core, small improvements for skin-objects
  • updated: demos

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.27 (Mar 16, 2010)

  • added: updown control in TbsSkinTimeEdit, TbsSkinDBTimeEdit control (see ShowUpDown property)
  • added: new cool HQ modern skin: "Air"
  • improved: TbsSkinDBDateEdit control
  • fixed some problems with TbsSkinPrinterSetup and TbsSkinPageSetup dialogs

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.26 (Feb 23, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinData.GlobalChangeFont method and TbsSkinData.OnLoadData event (use this method and event to global font change in skin in real time - now you can change font of the skin's elements on the fly (see help))
  • added: "global change font" option in SkinBuilder (open ready skin in SkinBuilder and change font in all elements instantly)
  • updated: help
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.25 (Feb 8, 2010)

  • updated and improved: creating and visualization methods for layered borders and glow effects (important changes in core)
  • updated: a lot of skins (modification of images for layered border and glow effects)
  • updated and improved: skin format of layered borders
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: demos

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.22 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • added: TbsSkinDBNavigator.ImageList property (now you can use your images)
  • added: collection of png-images for TbsSkinDBNavigator control (use TbsPngImageList)
  • added: TbsSkinMonthCalendar.WeekNumbers and TbsSkinMonthCalendar.ShowToday properties
  • improved: drawing of TbsSkinMonthCalendar control

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.20 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • added: blur alphablend effect for layered borders (available for Aero interface in Windows Vista and Windows 7)
  • added: experimental skins with blur alphablend effect (Amazing_Aero, SLMedia_Aero, BlueBrilliant_Aero, Charm_Aero, 2010Black_Aero)
  • added: TbsSkinData.AeroBlurEnabled (on / off blur alphablend effect)
  • updated: skin format of layered borders (support for blur alphablend effect in Aero interface)
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.17 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • improved: form showing and alphablending animation in Windows 7
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.16 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • fixed: small problems with mouse activation in listbox, memo, treeview and listview controls in Windows 7
  • added: some improvements in source code

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.15 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • updated and improved: skin format of the layered borders
  • added: new HQ skin "SLMedia" (this skin only for latest version)
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.11 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • improved: behaviour of layered border
  • improved: skins with layered borders
  • optimized: source code in bseffects and bsutils units
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.10 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • added: full layered borders support
  • added: new skins with full layered borders + updated old skins
  • updated: skin format
  • updated SkinBuilder
  • improved: TbsRibbon control

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.05 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • improved: drawing of TbsRibbon control (Ribbon UI control)
  • improved: behaviour of the form in Delphi 2010 and C++Builder 2010 (for WM_SIZING message)
  • updated: drawing of TbsSpeedButton and TbsMenuSpeedButton controls (now text and image have not offset in down-state)
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: skins with Ribbon UI
  • updated: demos
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 8.0 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsRibbon control - Office 2010 Ribbon UI control (for SDI and MDI applications)
  • added: TbsAppMenu control - Office 2010 Ribbon UI Application Menu
  • added: TbsRibbonGroup - ribbon group control
  • added: TbsRibbonDivider control - special divider with alphachannel
  • added: TbsAppMenuPageListBox control - special list box for application menu
  • added: Office2010 skins (full 3 styles (Silver, Blue, Black))
  • added: a lot of small improvements and optimizations in source code
  • updated: skins for Ribbon UI
  • updated: SkinBuilder (new form to test Ribbon UI was added)
  • updated: help
  • updated: demos

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.81 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: improvements in behaviour of the form
  • added: new skins to Ribbon UI collection
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.80 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsSkinPageControl.MouseWheelSupport (now you can change page with mouse wheel (see RibbonUI demo))
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.QuickButtons (Quick access buttons in form's caption (see Ribbon UI demo))
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.QuickImages property
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.QuickButtonsShowHint property
  • added: some small imrovements
  • updated: skins with Ribbon UI elements
  • updated: help

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.70 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsSkinPageControl.TabsOffset property (now you can set left offset for tabs (see in Ribbon UI demo))
  • added: TbsSkinGroupBox.RibbonStyle property (now you can set caption in bottom of control (see in Ribbon UI demo))
  • added: skins with Office 2010 Ribbon UI elements + demo

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.67 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: optimizations in source code
  • added: small improvements in controls

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.65 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • improved: glow effect for buttons in form's caption and in controls (updated skins)
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • added: some small imrovements
  • added: HQ skin "SnowLeopard"

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.62 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • improved: layered borders behaviour when window restoring from "maximize" state
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.61 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: modifications for SmartEffects 2.05 version
  • improved: layered borders behaviour in Windows 7 (when skin was changed)

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.60 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: layered borders for forms (shadows, frames) and now skins look more quality!
  • added: TbsSkinData.ShowLayeredBorders property
  • added: TbsSkinData.AnimationForAllWindows property (alphablend-animation for all windows)
  • added: Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010 support
  • added: improvements in alphablend-animation for forms, controls, menu, hints
  • updated: skin format
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: help
  • updated: skins (see layeredskins collections)

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.50 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: animation for glowing effect for buttons in form's caption and in button controls (now effect looks more quality)
  • added: glow effect for items in TbsSkinButtonsBar controls (see ItemGlowEffect property)
  • updated skins: Charm, Orion, Superiority, VisionEx, Mercury, LightBusiness
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.49 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: small improvements and bug-fixes in controls

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.48 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: OnDrawItem event for TbsSkinOfficeListBox, TbsSkinOfficeComboBox, TbsSkinHorzListBox controls
  • added: "Apply SkinData to all controls" in component menu of TbsBusinessSkinForm component (for design mode)
  • added: new HQ serial skins: "VisionEx", "Mercury"
  • added: some small imrovements in controls

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.47 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsSkinHorzListBox.ShowGlow property (glow effect for active item)
  • added: a lot of small improvements and optimizations in controls
  • added: new HQ serial skins "LightBusiness"

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.45 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsSkinHorzListBox control
  • (advanced listbox with horizontal direction and items, which have enabled, image, caption, layout, margin, spacing properties)

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.40 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.ClientInActiveEffect, TbsBusinessSkinForm.ClientInActiveEffectType properties
  • (cool effect for client area of the inactive form (blur or semitransparent); we recommend use this effect when you call modal forms)
  • added: TbsBusinessSkinForm.ShowClientInActiveEffect, TbsBusinessSkinForm.HideClientInActiveEffect methods
  • fixed: problems with hints in TspSkinTrayIcon component in RAD Studio 2009
  • added: new skins: Superiority, Impulse

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.37 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TextInHorizontal property to the TbsSkinTabControl and TbsSkinPageControl (now text and image can draw always in horizontal direction (for example, when TabPosition = tpleft))
  • added: TabSpacing, TabMargin, TabLayout propery to the TbsSkinTabControl and TbsSkinPageControl
  • added: TabExtendedDraw to the TbsSkinTabControl and TbsSkinPageControl (if True then text and image in tab will be draw using TabSpacing, TabMargin, TabLayout properties)
  • updated: extended demo for PageControl with new features
  • added: some small imrovements in edit controls
  • updated: help
  • added: new skins: IMetal_Dark, Office2007_Silver, Office2007_Dark_Remix

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.35 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: improvements in TbsSkinToolBarEx control
  • added: new position for hints in TbsSkinToolBarEx control

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.34 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • added: TbsPngImageStorage component (storage of png images with different sizes)
  • added: TbsPngImageView.PngImageStorage property
  • added: TbsPngImageView.DoubleBuffered property
  • added: TbsPngImageView.OnMouseEnter and TbsPngImageView.OnMouseLeave events
  • added: TbsPngImageView.ReflectionEffect property

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.33 (Apr 3, 2009)

  • updated bszlib unit
  • updated SkinBuilder

New in BusinessSkinForm 7.17 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • added glow effect for caption in form as in Windows Vista (updated skin format for the caption object)
  • added TbsSkinVistaGlowLabel control (label with text glow effect as in Windows Vista)
  • added new cool skin Windows7
  • updated InnovEx, Andromeda, VistaTM skins (added glow effect for caption object as in Windows Vista)

New in BusinessSkinForm 6.10 (Dec 8, 2007)

  • added support for SmartEffects VCL
  • added OnChange and OnChanging event in TbsButtonsBar control
  • added some small improvements

New in BusinessSkinForm 6.09 (Nov 24, 2007)

  • added close buttons for tabs in TbsSkinMDITabsBar control (see ShowCloseButtons property; now you can close mdichilds from tabs)
  • added TbsSkinCheckRadioBox.UseSkinFontColor property
  • improved drawing of TbsSkinPageControl and TbsSkinTabControl
  • added some small improvements in shell dialogs

New in BusinessSkinForm 6.08 (Nov 14, 2007)

  • added close buttons for tabs in TbsSkinPageControl (real size offset in tabs for close button)
  • added TbsSkinPageControl.ShowCloseButtons property
  • added TbsSkinPageControl.FreeOnClose property
  • added TbsSkinPageControl.OnClose event
  • added TbsSkinPageControl.HideTabs method (hide all tabs)
  • added TbsSkinPageControl.ShowTabs method (show all tabs after HideTabs procedure)
  • improved drawing of big tabs in TbsSkinPageControl (now it looks more quality)
  • updated most of skins (added close buttons for "tab" control)
  • updated SkinBuilder
  • updated help

New in BusinessSkinForm 5.31 (May 18, 2007)

  • added sorting in shell dialogs
  • improved TbsSkinButtonsBar control (set SectonIndex property to -1 to close all sections; use OpenSection method to open some section in runtime)