
FXTools/VB(tm) Professional Demonstration
Copyright (c) 1994, ImageFX
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRICE
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FXTools/VB Professional Edition - Includes 9 custom controls
that add professional effects to images, text, shapes and video.
You can display 19 image file formats including Iterated Systems, Inc.
Fractal Image File (FIF) and LEAD Technologies, Inc. (CMP).  Plus, you 
can easily control WAV and MIDI sound; control and display AVI and 
QuickTime movies with special effects on any frame; and move text
along a predefined path.  Over 100 special effects are provided along
with the ability to: 1) Cancel an effect and 2) Receive notification
that an effect has completed with or without a time delay.  Delayed
Effect Notification (DEN) is built into all FXTools/VB Professional
controls that display special effects. 

$349.00 + shipping.


AVAILABILITY:
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FXTools/VB Professional Edition is available directly from ImageFX
for only $349.00 + shipping.

We accept VISA and MASTER CARD and Discover.
We can ship worldwide.

USA shipping cost:
  Priority Mail - $5.00
  2nd day UPS   - $8.00
  next day UPS  - $12.00

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ANNOUNCING FXTOOLS/VB PROFESSIONAL EDITION
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ImageFX is now shipping FXTools/VB Professional Edition.  A brief
description of the controls included with the Professional Edition
is given below:

FXImage - The FXTools image control gives you incredible control over the 
          display of  images. In addition, this control provides the 
          following features:
 100 professional effects including wipes, diagonals, pushes, pulls, 
  splits, blinds, and many more.
 100 solid or patterned transition effects that can precede a main or
  dissolve effect.
 90 multiple-pass dissolve effects and 8 Wand effects.
 Grain and Delay properties provide total speed control and countless 
  variations for each effect.
 Supports BMP, DIB, GIF, PCX, TGA, and TIF 5.0 image file formats.
 Image color transparency allows you to display odd shaped images or 
  image cutouts.
 Images can be resized or tiled to the control.
 10 properties are provided for enhanced 3D colored borders & bevels 
  for great looking frames or buttons.
 Bound Control.
 Delayed Effect Notification (DEN) provides timed effect notification.  
  DEN generates a timed notify event when an effect has completed.
 Effects can be cancelled using a keyboard and/or mouse event.  
 Background tasks (like sound) are not interrupted during effects.



FXLabel - The FXTools label control, with over 70 properties, gives you 
          unprecedented control over the display of text. In addition, 
          this control provides the following features:

 100 professional effects including wipes, diagonals, pushes, pulls, 
  splits, blinds, and many more.
 100 solid or patterned transition effects that can precede a main or
  dissolve effect.
 90 multiple-pass dissolve effects and 8 Wand effects.
 Grain and Delay properties provide total speed control and countless 
  variations for each effect.
 10 properties are provided for enhanced 3D colored borders & bevels 
  for great looking frames or buttons.
 Seven 3D font styles; Colored shadows; Nine text alignment styles
 Bound Control; DDE Support
 Delayed Effect Notification (DEN) provides timed effect notification.  
  DEN generates a timed notify event when an effect has completed.
 Effects can be cancelled using a keyboard and/or mouse event.  
 Background tasks (like sound) are not interrupted during effects.



FXRtext - The rotating text control allows you to rotate TrueType fonts 
          at any angle.  In addition, this control provides the following 
          features:

 100 professional effects including wipes, diagonals, pushes, pulls, 
  splits, blinds, and many more.
 90 multiple-pass dissolve effects and 8 Wand effects.
 Grain and Delay properties provide total speed control and countless 
  variations for each effect.
 Seven 3D font styles; Colored shadows 
 Bound Control; DDE Support.
 Delayed Effect Notification (DEN) provides timed effect notification.  
  DEN generates a timed notify event when an effect has completed.
 Effects can be cancelled using a keyboard and/or mouse event.  
 Background tasks (like sound) are not interrupted during effects.



FXShape - The shape control emulates the standard Visual Basic shape 
          control.  In addition, this control provides the following 
          features:

 100 professional effects including wipes, diagonals, pushes, pulls, 
  splits, blinds, and many more.
 90 multiple-pass dissolve effects and 8 Wand effects.
 Grain and Delay properties provide total speed control and countless 
  variations for each effect.
 3D colored borders for rectangles and squares.
 16 Shapes including octagon, pentagon, hexagon, star, triangles, 
  and diamond.
 Colored drop shadows.
 Delayed Effect Notification (DEN) provides timed effect notification.  
  DEN generates a timed notify event when an effect has completed.
 Effects can be cancelled using a keyboard and/or mouse event.  
 Background tasks (like sound) are not interrupted during effects.


FXMtext - The FXTools moving text control provides the following features:

 Text motion along predefined paths with speed control
 Seven 3D font styles; Colored shadows
 Bound Control; DDE Support
 Delayed Effect Notification (DEN) provides timed effect notification.  
  DEN generates a timed notify event when an effect has completed.
 Text motion can be cancelled using a keyboard and/or mouse event.  
 Background tasks (like sound) are not interrupted while the text moves.



FXSnd - The FXTools sound control provides the following features:

 Manages the playback of wave audio (.WAV) and MIDI sequencer (.MID) files. 
 Auto Play, Play From, Play To, Play From/To, and Repeat features.
 17 easy-to-use commands eliminate the need to program MCI strings.
 Volume control.  Mixer Volume, Bass, Treble, Loudness and Stereo Enhance 
  control for audio cards that support Media Vision's MCI mixer command 
  interface.
 The play property emulates the QBASIC Play (music) function.
 Full MCI command support can be used to control any device that 
  supports MCI.
 Bound Control.


FXVid - The FXTools video control provides the following features:

 100 professional effects including wipes, diagonals, pushes, pulls, 
  splits, blinds, and many more.
 100 solid or patterned transition effects.
 90 multiple-pass dissolve effects and 8 Wand effects.
 Grain and Delay properties provide total speed control and countless 
  variations for each effect.
 10 properties are provided for enhanced 3D colored borders & bevels 
  for great looking frames.
 Video resize; Bound control.
 Main or dissolve effects can be applied to the initial frame of a video 
  segment.  Video segments can be any portion of a video file. Transition 
  effects can also be applied to the last frame of a video segment.  This 
  provides attractive and seamless transitions between video segments and 
  files.
 Auto Play, Play From, Play To, Play From/To, and Repeat features.
 17 easy-to-use commands eliminate the need to program MCI strings.
 Volume control.  Mixer Volume, Bass, Treble, Loudness and Stereo Enhance 
  control for audio cards that support Media Vision's MCI mixer command 
  interface.
 MCI string property can be used to control any device that supports MCI.
 Supports AVI (Video for Windows) and QuickTime for Windows.



FXFif - The FXTools FIF image control lets you decompress and display
        Iterated Systems, Inc. Fractal Image File (FIF) images.  This 
        control has all of the features of the FXTools Image control 
        along with the following features:

 Crop any part of the image.
 Change the image resolution.
 Support for fixed and optimized palettes.

Fractal image compression can compress PC-size images down to 1% of their
original size while maintaining quality and fast decompression speeds. 
The FXTools FXFif image control decompresses and displays FIF images 
with effects.  


FXCmp - The FXTools CMP image control lets you display 
        LEAD Technologies, Inc. compressed image file format (CMP) images
        along with 17 other image file formats including JPEG.  This 
        control has all of the features of the FXTools Image control 
        along with the following features:

 Flip or reverse images.
 Display color images as gray scale.
 32-bit processing power.
 Support for fixed and optimized palettes.
 Displays 18 image file formats including CMP, BMP, PCX, GIF, TIF, TGA, 
  JFIF, JTIF, WMF, EPS, CALS, MAC, IMG, MSP, WPG, RAS, PCT, and PCD.

JPEG compression ratios range from 3:1 to over 100:1.  LEAD CMP is a high 
performance algorithm which outperforms standard compression methods.  
Color compression ranges from an average of 7:1 with no image loss to over 
200:1 with minimal data loss. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE FXTOOLS/VB PROFESSIONAL EDITION DEMO
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ImageFX encourages you to distribute the FXTools/VB Professional Demo
program as long as all of the files required by the demo are not renamed
or altered in any way.

ImageFX is committed to developing affordable multimedia tools.  If you 
like this demo, we encourage you to tell your co-workers, associates and 
fellow Visual Basic friends about FXTools/VB.
If you have local BBS's, we also encourage you to place this demo on them.

FXTools/VB capabilities for Visual Basic are unmatched at any price.

Have fun with Visual Basic.  Join the multimedia development revolution 
today.

Jerry Isenga
President, ImageFX


INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION:
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   COUNTRY      DISTRIBUTOR           PHONE
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   Australia    GUI Computing         61-3-827-0199
   England/UK   Grey Matter, Ltd.     44-364-654100
   France       Oser                  33-1-40-18-10-70
   Finland      Ravenholm Computing   358-0-506-2600
   Germany      MicroBasic, GmbH      49-89-90-49-90-21
   Ireland      Visage Software, Ltd. 353-1-833-0927
   Netherlands  Lemax Company BV      31-20-659-8701
   Japan        Bunka Orient Co.      81-22-378-7106
   Spain        Visual Programming    34-87-22-99-63
   Sweden       McAllister PC Systems 46-8-720-7551
   Switzerland  BBI Informatik        41-65-271-661
   Taiwan       RAMfarmer, Ltd.       886-2-3754168




QUESTIONS?
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If you have any questions or comments about FXTools/VB,
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