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      VBX ARTIST - Drag & Paint Image Editing Control for Visual Basic
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General Description

VBX Artist is an invisible control able to edit/annotate an image held within such objects as pictureboxes or forms.  Generally you would select a paint tool (Brush, shape, floodfill, eraser, text, sissors, etc) and relevant properties (fore and back color, line width, font name, etc).  The control then acts, modifying the image, while it is being dragged (either within the mouse move event of a control such as a picturebox, or via our own Artist API calls ).  (Dragging within a mouse move event is a single line of code).  

In addition to editing the actual bitmap within suitable containers, the VBX Artist control may be used to edit the temporary screen image displayed by any object, even by other applications.  You can for instance progammatically (or via end user mouse movements) circle some data in any other application and then copy a portion of that application screen to the clipboard and into your VB application for documentation purposes.  Using the eraser to erase program manager, for instance, would however be a temporary effect and the image would be restored upon the first Repaint event of the application.

The VBX Artist custom control for Visual Basic provides full image editing/painting support within VB Applications.  Together with our PicScroll control (included at no extra charge) creating graphic editing applications is a snap.  

VBX Artist Features:

   	VBX Artist can paint on any control and any window (even other 
	applications).  VBX Artist paintings on the image property of 
	forms and picture boxes can be saved and reloaded at any time.

   	VBX Artist Provides the end user with a complete set of 
	painting tools for image editing in Visual Basic:   Pen,
	PaintBrush, Line, Eraser, Shapes, Spray Can and Flood Fill, 
	Text.  Selecting a paint mode is as easy as setting a single 
	property of the control.

   	VBX Artist Text handling includes choice of fonts, colors, sizes, 
	and even angular orientation.

   	VBX Artist tools can be customized to support a range of drawing 
	widths, brush shapes and brush patterns.  Brush patterns, and 
	shapes can be taken from a user defined bitmap or an icon file.  
	Yes you can even paint with a colored icon as a brush!

   	VBX Artist painting can be end-user controlled (dragging the 
	control in a mouse-move event) or controlled programmatically.

   	VBX Artist includes a built in Screen Grabber mode allowing the 
	clipping of any portion of the screen.

   	The VBX Artist package edits the image held in any form or 
	picturebox, but also includes a FREE copy of our PicScroll Control 
	for scroll and zoom support (plus a host of other wonderful features).

   	VBX Artist supports editing of BitMaps, MetaFiles and Icons.

VBX Artist supports the following edit tools:
	Pen, 		Brush, 
	Spray, 		FloodFill, 
	Line, 		Eraser,
	Screen Grabber/Clipper,
	Filled and empty ovals and rectangles

VBX Artist Property settings control
	ForeColor, FillColor, BackColor
	Brush Size
	Brush Mask (can even be a colored bitmap)
	FillPattern
	Target window selection (you can even paint on other applications)

Typically editing occurs during a mouse move function as the control is dragged across some target window.  Alternatively function calls support fully programmatic painting.

A purchase of VBX Artist also includes a copy of our PicScroll control for scrollable, zoomable image display.  PicScroll may also be used as a scrollable container control, and can selectively display individual or multiple records from a metafile.

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	PicScroll - Scrollable, Scalable Picture Box Control
		(included at no extra charge with VBX Artist)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

PicScroll is a Scrollable Scalable Picture Box control designed for Visual Basic 
programmers by Bennet-Tec Information Systems.  

FEATURES:

The PicScroll control has several useful features, not available in other Visual Basic picture controls:

	  PicScroll is Data Aware.

	  PicScroll supports all the types of images produced by
	  LoadPicture() function.

	  PicScroll images can be scrolled.  PicScroll offers three
	  flavors of scroll control: dragging with mouse, scrollbars 
	  and programmatically setting of X and Y offset values. The
	  scroll facility can also be used in creating animation 
	  effects.

	  PicScroll pictures can be scaled. You can specify picture 
	  size different from its original size and the picture will 
	  be stretched or condensed accordingly.  The Stretch property
	  allows automatic upon end-user resizing of the control.

	  PicScroll accepts Dropped Files.  One or more files can be
	  dragged from the File Manager or our own enhanced file list
	  control and dropped into the PicScroll control.  Unlike 
	  standard VB Drag and Drop, PicScroll's DropFile event 
	  captures the filenames directly, facilitating the 
	  implementation of file processing applications.

	  PicScroll supports Clipping of Icons and MetaFiles, not just 
	  the BitMaps supported by VB's own PicClip control.

	  PicScroll is a container control able to optionally resize and
	  scroll it's child controls with it's internal bitmap.  The bitmap
	  may also be manipulated independantly of the child contols

	  PicScroll's unique metafile support allows you to display individually
	  selected metafile records.

