A package of standard and unique skinable VCL's for professional UI design development using "AlphaSkins". AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications. We have also added some properties, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique. - Skinning of standard and 3rd-party components and over 80 own controls which are optimized for using with skins and have own additional features - System dialogs automatic skinning - Skinable forms (SDI & MDI) and menus - Possibility of components using without skins - Native support of PNG files, own TsAlphaImageList component - Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects - Support of packed and unpacked skins - Easy embedding of any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment - The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time - Style Hints control make hints to be displayed alpha-blended and you can choose from many ways to display (PNG templates are supported) - Added caption properties for position and rendering - Mouse event added provide great possiblities - Easy and powerfull skin-engine supports of internal and external skins, one type of control can have some kinds in skin. All drawings (patterns except) supports of alpha-masks - Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component) - Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library - Designing in design-time in IDE - Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing - Animation effects in some controls - Frames full automatic support - Unicode support if TntControls or BDS 2009 used - Working with the components is very simple and intuitive