Breaking the barriers with a unique and affordable library of custom ActiveX and VBX controls.

Tired of working around the limitations found in the standard Windows controls? Then get the ad-Vantage, add Vantage Control Set version 2.1 to your toolbox.

Vantage Control Set 2.1 includes the following:

	Enhanced data-aware TextBox, Static/Label, ListBox, and ComboBox controls.
	VPFocus management control allowing data validation through intelligent management of Focus events.
	VPForm control for 3D form display effects and custom drag-and-drop operations.

Vantage Control Set has the features you are looking for.

Vantage Control Set is a library of custom controls including enhanced replacements for many of the standard controls that come with Visual Basic, as well as two new controls to help manage the user interface and operations of a Visual Basic program. The controls of this set are provided as VBXs for support of Visual Basic version 3.0 and the 16-bit version of Visual Basic 4.0. They also come as ActiveX (32-bit OCXs) controls that work with the Visual Basic 4.0, Visual Basic 5.0, Visual Basic 6.0 and any other development environment that supports ActiveX technology.

Ever try to control data validation within the Focus events? Too many problems, so you gave up? The VPFocus control has just what you need, a way to manage LostFocus/GotFocus event processing within a program. This control enables real-time data validation to be properly handled within the LostFocus event of a control, without unwanted event execution that normally precludes this type of processing. With the VPFocus control, Visual Basic’s LostFocus event can be made to work similar to the OnExit Control Property of Microsoft Access. There is not another control like it.

Ever wanted to add drag-and-drop features within your applications, but found the mechanism within Visual Basic cumbersome, and difficult to code? Would you like to add 3D display effects to the forms of your projects, including custom backgrounds. The VPForm control is just what you need.

The VPForm control has a custom Cursor property and MouseCapture property that in conjunction with custom Mouse events, provides a robust and flexible drag-and-drop mechanism that goes beyond those functions provided by Visual Basic. Cursor references can be assigned to the VPForm's Cursor property, allowing for different custom mouse pointers during drag-and-drop operations. The purpose of these custom properties and events is to provide centralized, easy to program, drag-and-drop operations.

The VPForm control can also be used to control the look of the form with its custom Appearance property. The appearance options are Flat, 3D - Inset, or 3D - Raised with the 3D options drawing a 2-pixel border on the inside of the form's frame. This control also includes a Background property that can apply a bitmap as a brush in displaying a form's background. Both the Appearance and form Background properties take in account any controls on a form that have their align property set to top or bottom. This means that any 3D or form display effects are within the boundaries of the form excluding top or bottom aligned controls which provides for a more appealing visual effect.

The replacement controls of this library (the enhanced text box, combo box, list box and static/label controls) go well beyond the capabilities of these same standard controls that come with most programming languages like Visual Basic. While there are other control collections from 3rd-party vendors that provide enhanced versions of these same controls, none have the combination of features found within Vantage Control Set.

VPComboBox control - data aware with two-way binding, multiple columns, 3D effects, grid lines, column headings, output formatting, data alignment, custom sorting and search method, matched entry property, independent sizing of edit and list portions, standard unbound operations, no 64K data limit.

VPListBox control - data aware with two-way binding, multiple columns, 3D effects, grid lines, column headings, output formatting, color settings, data alignment, custom sorting and search method, standard unbound operations, no 64K data limit.

VPTextBox control - data aware, 3D effects, data alignment options in either single or multiple line styles, and new insert/overtype modes of operation.

With Vantage Control Set, VantagePoint Software has tried to provide a library of controls that would typically be used in any project. The added functionality and utility associated with these controls are those that cannot be found in the controls from either Microsoft or other third-party vendors. This is not a large set of controls with the typical large price tag, but a small and useful set of workhorse controls that provide new and needed properties that can be used to design a better user interface, while providing increased functionality.