Arcadia PowerEdit

“PowerEdit provided the only ActiveX solution for support of multiple languages (Unicode), and Right to Left editing, in our Visual Basic applications.”

Mike Dempsey, Senior Software Engineer

Built-in Dropdown Calendar
with Hijri Calendar Support

Arcadia PowerEdit comes with integrated dropdown calendar with highly customizable appearance and functionality, including: Alignment, calendar title bar, days header with localization auto detection, today bar and caption, today indicator, month and year navigation, minimum and maximum date, start of the week setting, solid and gradient color customization for various calendar background and foreground elements with translucency effects assignment option.  In addition to supporting the default Gregorian calendar, Arcadia PowerEdit now supports the Hijri calendar.

Integrated Spin Buttons

Arcadia PowerEdit comes with built-in spin buttons for numeric, date, and time values. Arcadia PowerEdit spin buttons appearance is customizable
and comes as flat, XP, and 3D with the ability to apply gradient effects for enhanced appearance.

Built-in Customizable Button

Expand your application's data entry functionality with Arcadia PowerEdit's customizable button.  The customized button integrates seamlessly with the edit box and includes its own click event. You can also apply separate default, disabled, mouse over, and down button pictures.  In addition to flat, XP, and 3D appearances, solid and gradient color effects can be applied on the customized button for enhanced looks.

Appearances & Styles

Arcadia PowerEdit comes with built-in flat, 3D and XP appearances that works under Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT 4.0, XP, and Vista. Arcadia PowerEdit highly customizable appearance enables you to modify the style and colors for various PowerEdit elements, including fonts, borders, and backgrounds. Furthermore, elements styles settings can be applied on various PowerEdit sections, including the edit box, calendar, spin buttons, and scrollbars.  To enhance the looks of your application even more, you can apply gradient effects on several PowerEdit sections.

Corners Rounding
& Slanting Appearance

Add a stylish touch to your application with Arcadia PowerEdit's corners rounding
and slanting look.  Each style includes three levels with the ability to assign a different style and level for each of the four corners of the PowerEdit object. Additionally, rounded corners
are anti-aliased under XP appearance for enhanced graphical presentation.

Gradient Color Generator

Arcadia PowerEdit comes with advanced built-in gradient color effects generator that can be applied on PowerEdit's buttons, calendar, and scrollbars. You can generate horizontal, vertical, diagonal up, diagonal down, corner, and XP (style 1 and 2) gradients with four variants for each gradient.  Gradients with their associated variants can be applied on all available PowerTab states, including default state, when mouse pointer moves over the tab buttons, and when tab is disabled.

Translucency Effects

Arcadia PowerEdit built-in translucency feature enables you to add attractive presentation effects to your application by having the option to set full translucency or background only with the ability to apply different translucency levels all the way from opaque to transparent.  Translucency effects can be applied on the PowerEdit object and calendar.

New in version 3.0

Integrated customizable button with event and the option to show a customized picture

Built-in gradient color generator
with many styles and variants that can be applied to calendar section, scrollbars, spin buttons, and customizable button

Advanced translucency effects

Multi-level corners slanting styling with
a new corner rounding level

Masked Editing Enhancements
with new formatting options

Customizable date formats with
system regional options detection

The option to conform date entry to a specific format or allow free date entry where it will be automatically structured according to set format

Hijri calendar support

New Frame indicator style for the calendar's Today section

Ability to show the calendar's month and year buttons as arrows only without the background

Compatibility

User Interface Features

Built-in Windows XP, 3D, and Flat appearances and styles that can be applied under Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Vista

Advanced gradient color and translucency effects

Multi-level corners rounding and slanting

Highly customizable font style and
color settings under all states

Horizontal and vertical scrollbars

Right and left alignment for calendar, spin buttons, customizable button, and scrollbars

Top, left, right, and bottom margins settings

Functionality Features

Multi Data Types
with Advanced Validation

Arcadia PowerEdit includes
6 integrated data types: Any (String), Date/Time, Number, Currency, Email Address, and Hyperlink. Additionally, PowerEdit provides advanced validation options for date, number, and currency data types.

Advanced Date Formatting
with Over 40 Preset Formats and Customization Option

Arcadia PowerEdit comes with
44 preset date/time formats
with the option to define your customized date/time format or override the preset and customized format and apply
the system's date/time regional settings instead. Furthermore, PowerEdit enables you to set whether the user must confine
to a certain date/time entry to ensure correct formatting or
free entry where PowerEdit will format it according to the selected date/time format.

Advanced Number
& Currency Formatting

Arcadia PowerEdit advanced number and currency formatting enables you to set the digit grouping format, negative values format, currency positive value format, number of decimal digits, decimal symbol, digit grouping symbol, currency symbol, and whether you would like to display leading zeros.  Additionally, you can override the built-in formatting options and apply the system's number and currency regional options format.

Advanced Masked Edit

Ensure accurate data entry with Arcadia PowerEdit advanced mask edit feature. In addition to the standard mask formatting, Arcadia PowerEdit mask feature has been enhanced from previous versions with the addition of the new optional character entry format that enables you to provide your users with flexible data entry within a conformed format. This feature can be used for international telephone and fax number formatting where country code, area code, and number grouping style may differ from one country to another.

Password Character

With Arcadia PowerEdit, you can create password entry style by settings a password character that will be shown in place of any character entered in the assigned PowerEdit object text box.

Text Alignment
& Margins Settings

Arcadia PowerEdit text alignment and margin settings enables you to control the horizontal and vertical positioning of text entry with pinpoint accuracy.

Hyperlink Enabled

Arcadia PowerEdit enables you to enter hyperlink text and e-mail addresses that activates your  default Internet browser and e-mail editor when clicked.

Entry Styles

Arcadia PowerEdit expedites the data entry of your users by applying commonly used entry styles, including all uppercase, all lowercase, and initial uppercase.

Full Text ToolTip

With Arcadia PowerEdit you can display a partially visible value as a ToolTip when the mouse pointer moves over it.

Multi-line Support

In addition to single line text, Arcadia PowerEdit supports multi line text entry. Arcadia PowerEdit Also includes built-in vertical and horizontal scrollbars with highly customizable appearance options.

Bi-Directional Support

Arcadia PowerEdit
comes with advanced
bi-directional appearance and functionality features, including left and right side placement of the vertical scrollbar.