Drawing:

       
 

Name

Version

Description

Added /
Updated

 
 

Anti-aliased pixels

1.5

Draw pixels with sub-pixel precision

Oct. 2000

 
 

API gradients

1.01

Simple wrapping of the rectangular and triangular API gradient routines

Dec. 2001

 
 

API drawing

1.5b

APIDraw is intended as a 'wrapper' for the API drawing functions and encapsulates all the messy business with the Pen and Brush GDI objects giving you one-line drawing functionality.
The library supports Polygons, Lines, Ellipses, Rectangles, Stars, Rounded rectangles and PolyLines (Complex multi-part lines like a polygon but don't connect at the end's)

Mar. 2001

 
 

Autosize picture box

1.01

Scales a picture box's image based on its size, similar to the Image controls ".Stretch" property.

Nov. 2002

 
 

Chroma-blit
transparent blit

1.1

The same as the TransparentBlt() API call, but without the memory leaks! It allows you to draw an image to a DC excluding a defined 'transparent' colour, perfect for masking sprites for games or any other type of real-time animation.

Apr. 2002

 
 

VB Pixel library

1.3

A library of useful colour functions that make working with RGB colour in VB a lot easier by translating VB's Long colour type into a "Pixel" data type and visa-versa.
The pixel data type breaks a Long down into it's Red, Green and Blue components, easily allowing colour manipulations such as brightening, darkening, inversion, grey-scaling and many different blending methods.

Mar. 2001

 
 

Wu (Anti-aliased) lines

1.01

Draw smooth lines without the 'jaggies' artefacts.

Sep. 2000

 
     

 

Graphics:

       
 

Name

Version

Description

Added /
Updated

 
 

Copy Bitmap

1.1

Copies a GDI Bitmap and allows for conversion of type (DDB/DIB), depth and size.

Sep. 2004

 
 

Icon helper

1.2

Methods for working with API Icons

Sep. 2004

 
 

OLE Picture

1.02

Provides the ability to wrap GDI API objects and Icons in OLE StdPicture objects

Sep. 2004

 
     

 

File info:

       
 

Name

Version

Description

Added /
Updated

 
 

AVI info class

1.041

Extract information about AVI video files

Aug. 2002

 
 

BMP info class

1.0

Extract information about BMP files

Aug. 2002

 
 

GIF info class

1.02

Extract information about GIF image files

Jul. 2002

 
 

JPEG info class

1.1

Extract information about JPEG image files

Jul. 2002

 
 

MP3 info class

1.5

Read the contents of MP3 frame headers including bit-rate, frequency and song length.

Sep. 2003

 
 

RGB info class

1.01

Extract information about .RGB, .RGBA, .BW and .SGI image files.

Aug. 2002

 
 

PNG info class

1.0

Extract information about PNG image files.

Sep. 2004

 
     

 

Shell:

       
 

Name

Version

Description

Added /
Updated

 
 

Display info class

1.1

Allows you to find out information about the current display including the 'true' bit depth when reported by the API as 16-bit, and allows for mapping of colour values to the display in two modes. If you're working at 16-bit colour then this is a useful little class to have around.

Aug. 2002

 
 

Multi monitor library

1.0

Library of objects used to provide easy access to multi-monitor functionality in VB.

Sep. 2003

 
     

 

Utility:

       
 

Name

Version

Description

Added /
Updated

 
 

Rectangle class

1.0

Rectangle object encapsulating the API's support of rectangle objects and offering more derived functionality.

Sep. 2003