Arcadia PowerTab

“...We searched through many controls and found that Arcadia had the best user interface controls on the market ... We will continue to use Arcadia's tools and we look forward to what new tools they come up with. ”

Steven Bo, Accent Master

All sides tab orientation with
flexible tab buttons corners styling and resizing

All Sides Tab Orientation
with 90 Degrees Inward
& Outward Caption Tilting

Arcadia PowerTab provides four tab orientations; top, right, left, and bottom.  Left and right side tab buttons captions can be tilted tab captions 90 degrees inwards and outwards, for enhanced left and right tab side presentation.

Independent Corner Style Assignment with Flexible Level Adjustment

Arcadia PowerTab comes with four built-in tab button corners styles; square, rounded, cut, and in-round. These styles can be applied on each corner of every tab separately with flexible corner style resizing.

Built-in Appearances

Arcadia PowerTab comes with built-in Flat, 3D, 3D Light, and XP appearances that work under Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT 4.0, XP, and Vista. PowerTab highly customizable appearance enables you to set different gradient and solid colors, font styles.

Tab Body Corners Rounding

Add a stylish touch to your application with Arcadia PowerTab's body corners rounding look. You can apply this look on corners opposite to the tab buttons side.  Body rounding level is highly flexible and can
be easily adjusted by setting the rounding height and width size.

Bi-directional & Unicode Support with Right Alignment Option for Upper Tab Buttons

Arcadia PowerTab is designed to support bi-directional languages and Unicode character set.  Additionally, Arcadia PowerTab's upper side buttons can be aligned to the right as well as the left.

Sound Effects

Arcadia PowerTab provides you with built-in sound effects that can be triggered when the mouse moves over a tab button You can also embed your own custom sound.  The sound effect can be assigned for each tab separately.

Gradient Color Generator

Arcadia PowerTab comes with advanced built-in gradient color effects generator. 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 PowerTab built-in translucency feature enables you to add attractive presentation effects to your application by having the option to set full tab translucency or background only with the ability to apply different translucency levels all the way from opaque to transparent.

Multi-row Tabs with Horizontal Offsetting

You can create multi-row tabs seamlessly with Arcadia PowerTab under all built-in appearances with the option to set the number of tab buttons per row.  Additionally, Arcadia PowerTab enables you to set the horizontal offset between overlaying tabs.

Flexible In-between
Tab Buttons Spacing

Arcadia PowerTab comes with very flexible in-between tab button spacing that can be applied in single or multi-row modes.  In addition to being to able to set positive space values to create gaps between tab buttons, you can also set a zero value to make them connected to each other, or even set negative values for overlapping effect, thus creating new appearance possibilities.

Runtime and Design
Time Tabs Dragging

Arcadia PowerTab makes it easy for you to change the position of your tabs at runtime and design time with its integrated tab dragging feature.

Tabs Scrolling with
Auto scrolling Option

You can use Arcadia PowerTab's built-in scroll buttons if your form area is limited and you prefer to keep your tab buttons on a single row. You can also use the auto scrolling feature navigate through tabs by just moving the pointed over the scroll buttons.

Frame Control
Like Functionality

Take advantage of the ability to hide all of Arcadia PowerTab's buttons, along with the exceptional built-in gradient color  generator and translucency effects, and use it in your application as a frame control in new ways to enhance the UI presentation of your applications.

Separate Body Picture Assignment for Each Tab
with Two stretching Options

With Arcadia PowerTab, you can assign a default picture to be shown on all tabs' body area, or assign a picture for each tab individually that will supersede the default picture if one is assigned. Additionally, Arcadia PowerTab provides you with two flexible methods for displaying a picture inside a tab.  The first method enables you to stretch a picture over the tab's body and button areas, while the second method enables you to limit the picture to the tab's body area.

Built-in Picture Effects

Arcadia PowerButton enables you to apply different picture effects to tab buttons pictures when mouse hovers over them.  These effects include pop-up picture, lighter picture coloring, and dark picture coloring.

Compatibility

User Interface Features

Functionality Features

Bi-directional support