ActiveSplash.

ActiveSplash is an easy-to-use ActiveX control that enables you to create cool skinned Splash Forms, Form Transition effects and Splash Screens.

ActiveSplash key features:

- Create great-looking splash screens, splash forms or form transitions in no time at all.
- The unique SplashForm feature enables you to "skin" your conventional dialog-based forms using all the power of ActiveSplash's rendering engine.
- Form transition effects enables you to show your forms, or even single controls, without any additional graphics required.
- Up to 11 transitions combined with 16 directional modifiers produce hundreds of unique great-looking fade-in and fade-out transition effects
- 6 background filters makes it possible to stylize your background.
- Advanced hue settings adjust the splash screen to match the background color scheme, in both manual and automatic mode.
- Built-in skinning capabilities enable you to use Splash/SplashForm skins in you applications
- Two supported file formats: plain .INI files and compressed .SPL files that can be built directly into your executable.
- Great performance optimizations and low memory consumption makes ActiveSplash well-suited for any computer system.
- ActiveSplash lets you use soft shadows, glows and transparent areas in your splashes.
- ActiveSplash works well on Windows 9x, Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems, without any additional dependencies required.

In addition, a great collection of ready-to-use graphics, created by professional designers especially for the ActiveSplash control, is available for royalty-free use.

The ActiveSplash component is intended for use with:

- Microsoft Visual Basic 4-6
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5-6
- Inprise/Borland Delphi 2-5
- Inprise/Borland C++ Builder 3-4