Notification Package

The Notification package consists of controls used for providing visual feedback to the user of the status of certain events in an application. Common applications of the notification package include enhanced progress bars, splash screens, and customized message boxes with animation.

SplitContainerAdv control is similar to the SplitContainer control in .NET 2.0 Framework. It has two panels separated by a splitter. The SplitContainerAdv control allows you to set all the child controls that could share a vertical and horizontal space.

Gradient colors and styles can be applied to the SplitContainerAdv panels to enhance their look and feel.

Any of the SplitContainerAdv panels can be collapsed as needed.

The look and feel of the SplitContainerAdv can be enhanced by applying Visual Styles, which also includes the new Microsoft Office 2007 color schemes.

Office2007 Black Color Scheme

Office2007 Blue Color Scheme

Office2007 Silver Color Scheme

Office 2003 Visual Style

Office XP Visual Style

VS 2005 Visual Style

Mozilla Visual Style

Splash Panel enables the easy creation of splash notification windows such as the message notification window in MSN instant messenger. Complete customization of splash message behavior and placement is possible. Just drag and drop controls onto the Splash Panel. Splash Panel can appear on the screen with animation, and can be used to collect input from users.

Easily add a splash screen to an application. Default Splash control can be used without writing any code. The Splash screen can be displayed for a specified period of time or it can be explicitly closed.

The splash screen can be shown in any user defined location. Specify an image and display interval through the Windows Forms designer. Users may also preview the splash screen within the designer.

StatusBarAdv is an easy to use StatusBar control with advanced features. StatusbarAdv has full support for the designer.

Custom panels can be used in the StatusBarAdv control.

The StatusBarAdvPanel control extended from GradientPanel can be used in a form or with a StatusBarAdv control to show information like key states, date and time etc.

The ProgressBarAdv is an extension to the standard progress bar which will help you to display task completion status with lots of background, border and foreground styles.

The ProgressBarAdv includes the following ProgressStyles: Constant, Gradient, MultipleGradient, Tube, Image, System and WaitingGradient.

When ForegroundStyle is gradient, GradientStartColor determines start color of the foreground and GradientEndColor determines end color of the foreground.

By default, its value is an empty color array. You can add colors to multiple gradients by modifying property MultipleColors.

When ProgressStyle is Image, ForegroundImage specifies the image to draw the foreground and we have the property StretchImage to decide whether to stretch the image or not.

This will make the ProgressBarAdv look like the one that is shown when Windows XP boots.

Setting ForeSegments to false, lets you draw ProgressBarAdv without segments.

Orientation of the text can be set to either Horizontal or to Vertical using TextOrientation and ProgressOrientation set to Horizontal or Vertical determines the Orientation of the control itself.

TextStyle property set to Custom allows to set the text of the ProgressBarAdv when the value changes. You can change the color of the font used to draw the text of the ProgressBarAdv with the help of FontColor and TextShadow property can be used to give a shadow effect for the text displayed.

The GradientPanel is a Panel derived control that provides a custom background gradient using an array of colors.