Arcadia PowerList

“Arcadia controls are powerful, reliable, extremely easy to use, and can seamlessly implemented to blend in with almost any user interface with minimal effort providing dual support for both ActiveX and .Net”

Karl Timmermans, Principal, The Claxton Group

Advanced
Multi-level Grouping

Arcadia PowerList now provides advanced multi-level items grouping.  In addition to Outlook and tree style grouping options, you can show and hide grouped by columns.  Furthermore, PowerList provides you with the option to add and edit items while the grouping feature is activated.  Additionally, over
150 grouping feature related properties, methods, and events are available to ensure you have the utmost customization options available for you to make your PowerList's data organization as effective as possible.

Customizable Group
Header and Footer

Group headers and footers are highly customizable in Arcadia PowerList.  Pictures and flexible font styling can be shown under different states and according to group values.  Group footers can be multi columned or single unit to accommodate your various information presentations.  You can also replace the default expand and collapse symbols with your preferred images. Additionally, group headers comes with built-in features to show or hide items count per group and the captions of the grouped by fields.

Break free from ordinary  functionality and move into new concepts with our new title and footer's flexible caption styling and integrated marquee effects

Arcadia PowerList's new integrated title and footer sections open new possibilities for presenting your information in new exciting ways.  In addition to being able to mix pictures and captions together and set the alignments and margins for each section independently, you can now include marquee effects in both sections with the ability to change the font style of every character in the caption.  Example of such use can be to show company names in the list and their stock trading price as a marquee ticker bar.

New Highly Flexible Translucency Effects

Arcadia PowerList's new translucency effect is another powerful built-in UI effect that makes it possible for you to add alluring presentation effects to your application by enabling you to blend PowerList as a whole, or each section independently, with the element behind the PowerList object, such as picture embedded into the form or an image control. Furthermore, you can set the translucency level for PowerList as a whole or each section for optimal blending effect.

Endless presentation possibilities with the new Built-in Gradient Coloring Effects

Arcadia PowerList comes with highly flexible built-in gradient color effects generator

that enables you to create endless possibilities of looks for your applications. Gradient effects can be applied on every section of PowerList and for different states, such as default state, disabled, when mouse pointer moves over the section. Gradient effects can be applied on list title, header, odd and even item rows, items selection bar, record selectors column, group header and footer, all elements in the scrollbar, and list footer. The gradient color effects that can be generated include horizontal, vertical, diagonal up, diagonal down, corner, and XP (style 1 and 2) with the option of four variants for each gradient style.

Direct Two-way Connectivity to View, Add,
and Edit Records from Various Data Sources

Arcadia PowerList gives you the best of both worlds; the ability to directly view, add, and edit data records in SQL Server, Access, FoxPro, and Oracle databases; and the ability to do that just through simple settings without a single line of code. On the other hand, if you are looking for advanced database connectivity, PowerList provides you with a set of comprehensive properties, methods, and events to manage your application's data connectivity the way you want it.  You can also connect PowerList to many popular data source controls to access database platforms that are not directly supported.  Additionally, you can apply PowerList's advanced grouping features on connected database records.

Built-in Appearances

Arcadia PowerList comes with built-in Flat, 3D, and XP looks that works under Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT 4.0, XP, and Vista.  PowerList highly customizable appearance enables you to set different gradient and solid colors, font styles, and pictures to various sections and their elements.

Corners Rounding
& Slanting Appearance

Add a stylish touch to your application with Arcadia PowerList'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 PowerList object.  Additionally, rounded corners are anti-aliased under XP appearance for enhanced graphical presentation.

Bi-Directional
& Unicode Support

Arcadia PowerList various appearance and functionality elements have been designed from the ground up for bi-directional language support.  This includes left and right side placement of vertical scrollbar, column index according to the selected language direction, and Unicode character support.

3D Appearance

Flat Appearance with Gradient Right-To-Left Orientation Slanted Coroners Style

Advanced Cell
Editing & Navigation

Arcadia PowerList comes with several cell editing and navigation features to simplify your applications' users data entry. With PowerList, you can apply a different font style to edited cells from the unedited cells.  You can also choose different font color and cell background color.

Additionally, Arcadia PowerList come with built-in data entry styles to reduce case characters entry typos.  in addition to free entry style, the other style are: All Uppercase, Initial Uppercase, and All Lowercase.

Furthermore, Arcadia PowerList provides enhanced data entry options through integrated dropdown value list with customizable font style, font and background color setting, and ability to set the maximum visible items.  Furthermore, you can now assign checkboxes to columns with Boolean values.

Arcadia PowerList includes advanced keyboard navigation for moving through cells.  You can navigate using the Arrow keys, Enter key, and Tab key. PowerList provides  additional advanced navigation features, such as the ability to set the navigation direction of the Enter key when it is pressed and the Tab key navigation behavior, whether from row to row or from one cell to the next with option to make it stop at the end of the row or move to the next

New in version 3.0

Retrieve, add, edit, and update records directly in Access, FoxPro, Oracle, and SQL Server databases

Directly connect to various third party data controls to add, edit and update records on a wide range of database engines

Database records and items population performance enhancements

Substantial items sorting speed enhancement

Several methods for adding and inserting new items in inbound and unbound modes

Advanced multi-level items grouping with highly customizable group header and footer appearance and functionality

Integrated list title and footer sections with advanced caption styling and marquee effects

Advanced built-in gradient color effects that can be applied on every section
and under different states

Highly flexible multi-level translucency effects with the option to set the translucency level for each PowerList section separately

Multi-line and text wrapping option for caption and text inside list header, group headers and footers, items, and list title and footer

Multi-level corner rounding and slanting styling with anti-aliased corner rounding effect under XP appearance for enhanced graphical presentation

Integrated checkbox cell type that can be associated with Boolean values

Enhanced cell and column locking

Ability to position vertical scrollbar between the header and footer sections or adjacent to them

Ability to assign different scrollbar appearance independently from the overall selected PowerList appearance

Text, caption, and picture horizontal and vertical alignments and margins settings for items, headers, group headers and footers, and list title and footer for pin point positioning

Option to show and hide the header's ascending/descending sorting indicator with ability to replace default symbols with customized pictures.

New single step method (AddItem) for adding item text in singe or multi-columns reducing previous versions two or more step procedure of using a method for creating a new row and a second method for adding text for each column in the new row.

Comprehensive new properties, methods, and events for maximum customization

Compatibility

User Interface Features

Functionality Features

Bi-Directional

Hyperlink integration

Highlight and checkbox option for multi-selecting items

Preset date formats

Advanced cell editing navigation options

Direct and indirect cell entry activation options