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The concept of developing our own versatile component set, compatible across different frameworks and operating systems, emerged following our experience in crafting components for FMX. We were eager to provide users with the flexib...

When Office 2007 was just released, there was a lot of debate whether Microsoft should have really replaced the docking toolbars by the all new ribbon interface or rather left the user the choice between the classic familiar docking toolbars and the ...

Our team has finished this week the release of two important updates. First of all, there is the release of TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus v4.0. Main new feature of the components is the built-in support for an emulation of the Windows 7 scenic ribbon...

We're happy to inform a new version of the TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus is available now. With TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus you can create Office 2007 ribbon type applications as well as Office 2003 style docking toolbars. What's new improved in v...

In some cases it is not desirable and even annoying that a menu immediately disappears when a selection is made. To address such situations, the new component TAdvStickyPopupMenu was created. The TAdvStickyPopupMenu component was modelled aft...

The Office 2007 ribbon GUI has sophisticated capabilities to resize controls depending on the size of the window & its toolbars. A button can have 3 different size states: glyph size (bsGlyph size) label size (bsLabel size) large size (b...

Introduction An eye-catching feature of the new Office 2007 environment is the round button that sits in the top right corner of the window from where a menu can be shown that resembles the old File menu. What makes this menu a little diffe...

Over the past couple of years, appearances as these from Windows XP, Office 2003 / Office 2007, Visual Studio .NET and now Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Terminal styles have set standards for how an application should look. The techniques for definin...

Office 2007 hints All controls that are part of the TMS Advanced toolbars & menus feature an extended Office 2007 style hint. Office 2007 hints are more sophisticated than regular Delphi hints. An office 2007 hint has a title, an optional pict...

TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus support Office 2003 style docking toolbars & menus as well as Office 2007 ribbon style toolbars. Building applications with Office 2003 style docked toolbars starts by using TAdvDockPanel which is the componen...