Billenium Soft is proud to announce the release of Billenium Effects 3.

You can download a trial version that includes an exe demo at

http://www.billeniumsoft.com

If you prefer you can download only the demo executable (545 KB). Just download and execute, no installation is needed. This demo has been recently enhanced to demonstrate the new features.

http://www.billeniumsoft.com/trial/be31demo.exe

What's new:

1) New CreateShowForm and CreateShowFormEx methods in TFormContainer.
2) Scrolling support in TFormContainer with the new AutoScroll, HorzScrollBar and VertScrollBar properties.
3) KeyPreview support for embedded forms with the new FCKeyPreview routine.
4) New TFCEmbeddedForm custom form for even easier embedded forms creation.
5) New tePaintCopy, teHook and teOwnCanvas control rendering modes.
6) Pre-registered Express Bars, Express QuantumGrid, Express Inplace Editors, Infopower 3000 and WPTools controls. All these controls are correctly rendered now. If you are using RegisterTEControl with any of them please don't do anymore with this version as it would interfere with the new settings.
7) New Bitmap mask transition. This new bitmap mask transition will be very useful for creative people. You just have to assign a grayscale bitmap to the transition where each gray level represents a frame.
8) New interlaced transition.
9) New cool roll transition.
10) New waterfall transition.
11) The alphablend transition has been totally rewritten in highly optimized assembler, making use of MMX/SSE instructions where available. The result is a faster execution (up to 2x) and a much more smooth visual effect (up to 4x intermediate levels).
12) The diagonal transition is much faster now, thus eliminating some artifacts that were visible when using it at full screen. It also supports the new cool smoothing effect.
13) The radial transition is a little faster now and supports smoothing.
14) Smoothing support for the circle transition.
15) The slide transition is a little faster and supports the new slide out property.
16) Faster push transition.
17) The block transition is faster and supports the new dual property. Also a new random algorithm when using style 1 performs a much better visual effect.
18) Much faster controls rendering algorithm.
19) New OnMouseEnter and OnMouseLeave events in TEffectsPanel.

Benefits:

Do your applications look a little boring? Would you like to get spectacular yet easy to use visual effects? Billenium Effects will give your applications a different touch without interfering with your existing code. For example, just by dropping two components to your Splash Screen or About form they will be shown with a professional transition effect that will delight your customers. First impressions count!

Are you a multimedia developer? You have no better choice, our professional effects are OS independent. You'll get translucent controls working not only under Windows XP, but also under Windows 95, 98, NT, Me and 2000. You can use transitions not only with pictures but with any rectangle area of your forms, using your favorite components.

Cleaner yet powerful interfaces are possible by using embedded forms. Wizard or explorer-like interfaces are also easy. If you like TFrame but want better runtime capabilities then take a look at TFormContainer.

Useful for any kind of application. You will find interesting features for all your projects, whether they are games, multimedia, educational, technical or business applications.

Regards,
Francisco Sanchez
fsanchez@billeniumsoft.com
http://www.billeniumsoft.com