P-Pack14
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ActiveX - OCX Controls for Visual Basic

Created by Pier Paolo Messaggio
All rights are reserved (c) 2000



WHAT IS P-Pack14?
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P-Pack14 is a collection of 4 OCX controls for Visual Basic applications.
It is composed of PLed, PMeter, PLedBar and PToggleSW.

PLed is a LED indicator control that allows you to put in your applications
LED quite similar to the real one. You can choose among different colours: 
green, red, yellow and blue. Each one has the auto-blink feature so that 
you can make it blink on your command. You can change the blink rate as 
well.

PMeter is a meter that provides an instrument to display measure results. 
Its aspect is like a voltmeter and you can customise many properties of it.
If you provide a maximum and a minimum value it will apply an auto-scale 
feature and you can control over-scale values as well, with the generation 
of a specific event.
Any scale reference is customisable by caption and by character font. The 
scale colour can be chosen among several possibilities. 

PToggleSW is a toggle switch with a status indicator and a caption on it.
It's a resizable control and you can choose the caption font and the 
display colours. Every time the user pushes the button an event is raised 
to inform your application of whats going on.

PLedBar is a LED bar indicator, made of 16 rectangular LED, 12 green and 4 
red. Also this control provides an auto-scaling feature. Setting the 
maximum and the minimum value you can use this function.


INSTALLATION
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The installation is very easy. You need to copy all OCX files to your 
system directory (c:\windows\system). Then you have to register all new 
ActiveX controls in the windows registry, running the following commands:

Regsvr32 c:\windows\system\PMeter.OCX
Regsvr32 c:\windows\system\PLed.OCX
Regsvr32 c:\windows\system\PLedBar.OCX
Regsvr32 c:\windows\system\PToggle.OCX

You can now run your Visual Basic and try them.


LICENCE
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PControls is not free. You can try it as long as you like but if you decide 
to include any controls of it in your application, you must register and 
buy the unlimited version. Registration is quite flexible: if you dont 
need or you dont like them at all, you can even buy only the controls you 
like. The registration fees are very cheap, starting from $10. If you 
decide to register any control, you must fill out the registration form 
(REGISTER.RTF), send it to the reported address and the unlimited version 
will be sent you via e-mail.


SUPPORT
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If you have any trouble or any question feel free to contact me.
Pier Paolo Messaggio ppmessaggio@usa.net
