Programming a successful application is kind of like running a marathon - at first, your idea propels you forward, and you bask in the glory of planning and coding all of the great features that you've invented. But then, just like in a marathon, things start to get boring and painful - in programming, this occurs when its time to program application interfaces! Buttons, progress bars, splash screens, layouts - it all gets to be so time consuming. Why not treat yourself to a holiday gift with the 12 in 1 Sonic ActiveX Bundle Offer?

The 12 in 1 Sonic ActiveX Bundle Offer gives you the fully licensed versions of 12 of the most popular Sonic ActiveX controls, saving you valuable programming time and resources! Installation of the controls is super easy -- just drag and drop the ActiveX Control into your IDE's Components Panel or Toolbox, and you're good to go!

Everything that you create with the using a Sonic ActiveX control can easily be used in your other application projects. With just a click, you can save your settings to an external file or string, making them available to other projects, or giving your app users the freedom to switch up settings on a whim! New support for product registration and activation means you can distribute trial versions of your applications that use Sonic ActiveX controls without worry!

Here's what you get:

Sonic Click: Add contemporary, professional web-style buttons to your applications. Features include:

• 3 stage, 24-bit image buttons
• Tranparent or opaque background
• Smooth up-down icon motion
• Customizable button text
• Color tint and tint brightness options

Sonic Progress Bar: Update your application's dated, boring progress bar with a slick, stylish, and fully-customizable one! Features include:

• 9 Standard Styles including Windows XP format
• Unlimited user defined styles
• Easily adjust block size, gap, and feather
• Changable foreground & background colors
• All standard events (Click, DblClick, etc) are supported

Sonic Alpha Style: Give your applications a cool glassy transparent look & feel. In addition, use it to load your splash screens with high quality animations! Features include:

• 255 Steps alpha blending option
• Multi-Style application loading (fire, glow, lightning, etc)
• Apply glass effect to any number of forms with a single line of code
• Easily create custom defined form animations

Sonic Skinner: Skin your Applications easily with a few simple steps. Apply any user-designed skins and eliminate the old boring styles. Features include:

• Skin your applications without a line of code
• Apply skins with high quality GIF images
• Simple control tool box
• Create any kind of shaped forms

Sonic Frame: Easily apply additional styles to your applications. Arrange and bound the controls simply by selecting the suitable design and colors! Features include:

• Seven built-in styles (WinXP, SuperBlack, PlasticPad, Etc)
• Alignable, shadowable caption text
• Customizable borders (size, shape, color, etc)
• Adjustable rounded corner
• Gradient style background fill (horizontal, vertical, radial, etc)
• Background picture support
• Supports system colors

Sonic Calendar: Provide your users with a high-quality, clickable calendar interface! Features include:

• Seven built-in styles (WinXP, SuperBlack, PlasticPad, Etc)
• Easy navigation between months (high and low speed)
• Default value provides both the system date and time
• Gradient style background fills
• Supports system colors
• Low memory and space consumption

Sonic PNG Skin: Create professional PNG Skinned applications complete with smooth shadows and semi transparent backgrounds. Features include:

• Utilize 32-bit PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG and TGA images
• Supports smooth shadows and semi-transparent images
• Extremely fast 32-bit graphics processing with alpha mask rendering
• Easily magnify the skin to your desired size

Sonic Scroller: Replace your tired, overused scroll bars with beautiful, , slick, smooth ones. Features include:

• 12 Built-in themes that coordinate with the Sonic Skinner control
• Add your own image as the Scroll Bar skin
• Customize the size and shape of your scroll bar according to the needs of your application
• Supports am unusually large range of values: from -1,000,000 to 1,000,000
• Adjust scrolling speed as desired

Sonic Color Picker: Provide your users with an easy way of selecting colors! Features include:

• Easy selection of colors from a standard color palette
• Use in icon/compact mode for effective usage of available screen space
• Allow manual RGB color value entry
• View old, last and current colors side by side

Sonic Text Box: Provide your end users with a pleasant typing experience by replacing the standard text box control. Features include:

• Unlimited user defined styles
• Supports single and multiline text
• Change border style, size, and colors
• Save and load themes from external files

But that's not all! The 12 in 1 Sonic ActiveX Bundle Offer also includes the following:

Button Mega Pack 3000: The Button Mega Pack includes over 250 different sets high quality, 3-stage (Normal, Over & Down) button images. That's more than 3,000 images! Each button comes in four different sizes (60x20, 75x30, 100x30, 150x60) and can be used with Sonic Click Super, Mega and Ultra versions of the Button ActiveX control.

Sonic VB Suite: The Sonic VB Suite combines 6 different Sonic ActiveX componoents (Click, Progress Bar, Alpha Style, Skinner, Frame, Calendar) into a single control.With fast performance and easy deployment it's the perfect visual control suite for your applications and offers easy integration to the Visual Basic IDE.