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Versatile and ease of use is the standard for Arcadia's products. Add to that their pricing and you have a company that wants and is willing to work for your business.

John R. Therriault, Owner, Developer, TestDepth SoftWare

Arcadia PowerRadio 1.0 ActiveX

Built-in & Resizable
Radio Buttons & Tick Styles 

Add great looking user interface elements to your applications with Arcadia PowerRadio built-in Radio buttons and tick styles. In addition to three basic radio buttons styles: Square, Rounded, and Diamond, PowerRadio comes with eight tick styles. Also, radio buttons and ticks are resizable between the ranges of 10 and 255 with the ability to change the radio button border and tick colors under different states.

 

Resizable Built-in
Checkboxes & Tick Styles

 

 

Appearances & Corners
Rounding & Slanting

 
 

Appearances & Corners Rounding & Slanting

Arcadia PowerRadio comes with several built-in appearances, including XP, 3D, Flat, XP When Mouse Over, and 3D When Mouse Over. These appearances can be applied under Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Vista. Additionally, you can apply a stylish three level corner rounding and slanting effect to your PowerRadio frame. Rounded corners are anti-aliased under XP appearance for enhanced graphical presentation.

Picture Embedding
with Animation Option

Arcadia PowerRadio enables you to display a picture along with the radio button and caption in any sequence you choose.  You can also show different pictures under different states, including when the radio button is checked and unchecked.  Furthermore, you can enhance your user's interaction experience with your application using Arcadia PowerRadio's ability to show GIF animation pictures.

 

 

 
 

 

Picture Embedding
with GIF Animation

Translucency with
gradient coloring effects

 
 

Gradient Color Generator

Arcadia PowerRadio comes with advanced built-in gradient color effects generator that can be applied to the PowerRadio frame and the radio button.
You can generate horizontal, vertical, diagonal up, diagonal down, corner, and XP (style 1 and 2) gradients with four variants for each gradient.

Translucency Effects

Arcadia PowerRadio built-in translucency feature enables you to set full translucency or background only to the PowerRadio object with the option to apply different translucency levels all the way from opaque to transparent.

 

Flexible Focus Area Setting

Arcadia PowerRadio provides you with great flexibility to set the focus border area.  You can set it around the PowerRadio object's frame, radio button, picture, and caption area.

Hyperlink Enabled

You can assign a hyperlink URL to Arcadia PowerRadio caption and display it or keep it hidden while maintaining the functionality of the hyperlink.

Bi-directional

Arcadia PowerRadio comes with advanced bi-directional appearance features along with Unicode support.

Sound Effects

Arcadia PowerRadio provides you with built-in sound effects that can be triggered when the mouse moves over the PowerRadio object's frame and when checking the radio button.

 

 

Flexible Focus Border Setting

 

 

Hyperlink Enabled

 

 

Bi-directional Enabled

 

 

 

Compatibility

Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and Vista

Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0, .NET 2005 (Win Forms)

ANSI and Unicode character support

User Interface Features

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

Built-in resizable rounded, square, and diamond radio buttons shapes

Variety of built-in resizable tick styles that can be applied under the various available radio button shapes

Multi-level corners slanting styling under flat appearance mode

Ability to embed pictures, including GIF animated, under different states and use them in place of the built-in radio button

Anti-aliased frame corner rounding effect under XP appearance for enhanced graphical presentation

Built-in gradient color generator
with many styles and variants that can be applied to frame and radio button sections

Advanced translucency effects

Ability to apply different border styles and adjust the border width for the frame and checkbox sections

Highly customizable font settings under different states

Pop-up, lighter and darker coloring picture effect options when the mouse moves over the PowerRadio object frame

Functionality Features

Bi-directional

Auto Check

Caption Wrapping

Hyperlink Enabled

Ability to set the focus area to the entire frame, the caption section, the picture section, or the radio button section

Ability to hide the built-in radio button object and show only pictures under different states instead

Auto alignment for the radio button, picture, and caption elements

Pinpoint positioning accuracy by applying separate horizontal and vertical alignments and margin settings for captions, pictures, and radio button

Built-in sound effects option with ability to embed custom sounds under different states, including when the mouse moves over the PowerRadio object's frame and when clicking the radio button