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3D Active Button Magic is the ultimate button ActiveX control developed with the purpose of replacing the old fashioned Windows flat-square button in applications written with the most diffused development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio.NET and Delphi. No matter if you are developing a simple Windows application, a kiosk application or a touch screen application for the POS market: 3D Active Button Magic will enhance your user interface with an outstanding look and will give you the possibility to shorten your applications time-to-market. The strength of this product is the fact that it doesn't make use of predefined bitmaps, created with expensive graphical applications, in order to render its surface: it calculates the 3D rendering of the surface using a proprietary algorithm whose quality cannot be found in any of the few competitors on the market: this will allow to save time and money each time you will have to make a customization of your applications; furthermore, thanks to the use of predefined "templates", you can change all the settings of a button with a single line of code during the application execution. 3D Active Button Magic is not only a simple button control but a suite of 8 different controls and can be used as an alternative to some standard Windows controls of common use: inside the online documentation you will find a lot of tutorials and information that will help you getting the best from this product. With 3D Active Button Magic, you can have the same great button animation capabilities and disjointed rollover effects that you have come to love in Macromedia Flash? buttons on Web-based pages and on the Internet. 3D Active Button Magic is now fully UNICODE compliant, so you will have the possibility to use it with the various languages (such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.) that make use of double-byte characters.