Creating and displaying an animated image cannot be easier. Add frames of the animation to an image list, and then Animate Image control animates them for you. Besides animating, you can use this control to show a single image from an image list.

In simple words, Background Worker is multi-threading solution without a hassle. Time-consuming operations like downloads and database transactions can cause your user interface (UI) to seem as though it has stopped responding while they are running. When you want a responsive UI and you are faced with long delays associated with such operations, Background Worker provides a convenient solution.

BiDi DBNavigator is an improved version of Delphi DBNavigator control. It enables you to customize the glyph of navigation buttons, and supports bi-directional languages.

BiDiOutline is a hierarchical list control like Delphi Outline control, with one additional feature: it supports bi-directional languages.

Cursor View is control for displaying Windows mouse cursors. The control can show animated cursors as well as the static ones, and of course animate them.

Find File component offers a complete set of features for searching asynchronously in the file system. This component can confine the search by applying filters on files based on their location, name, size, attributes, directory level, content, and creation, modification, and access date and time.

Gradient is a simple but fast control for drawing color gradients. The control can draw gradients in 24 predefined styles. In addition, it can shift and/or rotate the gradient colors, which is suitable for playing animated color gradients.

Adding file reopen menu to Delphi applications cannot be easier. MRUFiles component keeps track of most recently used files (or other items), and show them on a menu.

The Office 97 Button is a Delphi control that looks and acts like the controls (buttons, radio buttons, up buttons, and down buttons) that appear in the Office Assistant balloons in Office 97 and Office 2000.

PicShow component is an image viewer, which can show the images with 176 different transitional effects. DBPicShow is the data-aware version of the control, and able to load various image formats from a database table.

The Print Preview components provide an easy way to control the printer, mange its settings, and display a preview of the output to the end-user. In addition, the user can easily navigate through the preview pages, manipulate them, and even save them as a PDF or multi-frame TIFF file.

Profiler is a non-visual component to measure execution time of program codes. By placing any part of code inside the profiler’s start and stop block, you can find out how many times the block was executed and what were the average, minimum, and maximum execution times of the block.

Real-Time Marquee is a scrolling text marquee control, which uses an asynchronous high resolution timer to produce a smooth animation. The control is supported by a simple HTML parser/render, so that you can animate HTML formatted text containing images and hyper links.

Rotate Image is an improved version of Delphi Image control that can display the images rotated at an arbitrary angle.

Simple Graph is a Delphi control for drawing vector based graphs and charts via code or its built-in user interface. In Simple Graph, the graph objects are linkable, and the links can be directional and sticky. Both graph objects and links can be captioned, and also their look and behavior is fully customizable. Simple Graph offers only basic geometric shapes (rectangle, round rectangle, ellipse, triangle, rhomboid, pentagon, and hexagon) as predefined graph objects, but you can easily define your own objects by sub-classing.

Do you want to relocate a control on a form with a fancy animation? Smooth Show is the component you are looking for. Smooth Show relocates the control by animating a frame from the old location of the control to its new location.

StatusBar Pro is an improved version of Delphi StatusBar control. Each panel of StatusBar Pro is customizable by setting font, color, hint, indent, image, popup menu, and click and double click events. In addition, width of the panels can be automatically adjusted according to the content of the panels or size of the status bar. You can also put another control over each panel, and StatusBar Pro will take care of position and size of the hosted control.

SunTime is a Delphi component for calculating times of sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and twilights for any geographical location on a specific date.

SysImageList is a read-only ImageList component containing the icons, which Windows uses internally. These icons are toolbar icons and associated icons of files, folders, applications, and etc. This component also offers a feature for finding the associated icons of any file, folder, special folder, or even URL.

Text Animator is a special label control, which animates the control's caption in four different styles. These animations are based on NervousText Java applet from Sun Microsystems.

Text Fader is a special label control that can be used for displaying multiple lines of text in a small area. This control shows the lines one by one each fading into the next.

Tooltip Manager is a component for managing and displaying balloon shape tooltips on Delphi windowed controls. Any individual tooltip is fully customizable and can have an icon, a title, and a long description.

Are you looking for a simple way to play sound in your Delphi application? Wave Player component can store a wave file as a form resource, and play it at runtime.