Released on = November 27, 2005, 5:53 pm

Press Release Author = CprinGold Software

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = ActiveX control to put your software icon in system tray area

Press Release Body = What is ASTC?

ASTC is an ActiveX control which provide the most System Tray Functions at
developing time. ASTC offer something for every programmer,showing you software icon
in system
tray is an easy task but can became a nightmare especially when you try to use the
advanced features
like tooltip balloon ,animating the icon and using the subclassing ,that\'s why ASTC
is an
Advanced System Tray Control.

ASTC contains all the function you can imagine about system tray programming so you
can focus in your
software idea in which you intend to write as well as you will be able to avoid
using the Native win32 API calls
to handle system tray programming. With ASTC you can easily show or hide your
Application icon whenever
you want ,you will be able to animate the icon whenever you want , you will be able
to handle all the events
that may happen to the icon like right button up or left button up etc...,ASTC also
can handle a very nice feature
which is the tooltip balloon given your application a professional looking.

ASTC is US$20 shareware. It is available from the CprinGold Software web site and
all major shareware download sites.

System Requirements:
Any IDE under MS windows that support ActiveX controls

Features
* Show-Hide the icon in system Tray area.
* Show the icon in animation state.
* Assign a tooltip for the icon.
* Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible].
* Show a balloon tool tip even displaying on win9x .
* Change the icon and tooltip in run time.
* Ability to assign a popup menu for a particular event happen to the icon even
displaying on win9x.
* Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the icon popup menu will be
closed.
* Show more than one icon in the system tray.
* The installer package contain sample code of using the control in
the following languages Vb6.0, VC++6.0, VB.Net, VC#.NET, VC++.NET and VJ#.NET


Some ASTC Features Described in Detail

The Tooltip balloon feature enable the developer to show a balloon in which its
arrow pointing to
the icon in the system tray,with this feature you can return a the application state
to the user or
notify the user with a new event had occurred given your application a professional
looking also the
developer can display this balloon tooltip even display in win9x.

The Animateing Feature enable the developer to animate his icon in the system tray
area ,first the developer
must insert the animation icons in a ImageList control version 6.0 then assign pass
the ImageList control to
StartAnimation method,no need to worry about Animateing system tray icon at all
because ASTC will handle this,
when the developer want to stop the animation , simply he or she call StopAnimateing
method.

Another feature of ASTC that save the developer time is that tracking the popup menu
in which the developer
had assign to an event related to the icon like right button up,what do you mean
about this?
in the normal cases using API function when you assign a pop up menu for the right
button up,the pop up menu
doesn\'t disappear unless the user click an item in it, ASTC solve this problem
without using mouse global hook by tracking
the popup menu and close it whenever the user left click outside the menu.

Availability

ASTC 1.0 is available now, and may be downloaded through our Web site at


About CprinGold Software

CprinGold Software is an online software development company,our main market is
small Internet
development teams and individuals who need low cost effective solutions and
personalized support services.
This is exactly what we are committed to providing.

CprinGold Software distributes its products under the shareware principles: try
before you buy and
minimal or no marketing costs. As a result shareware costs a fraction of the price
of most other commercial software.

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