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We recommend that you use the normal WebSetup procedure. However, if you are sure that your computer has the Windows Installer 1.1 update and the Visual Basic 6.0 SP5 runtime (any remotely recent computer does), you can manually download the setup package and bypass WebSetup. Click here for details.

Download EclipseUI setup package

EclipseUI is Green Eclipse's suite of ActiveX controls, specifically designed with Visual Basic programmers in mind. Included in the package are EclipseUI, a set of user interface controls, EclipseHook, a Windows message interceptor, and EclipseCabinet, a set of compression and decompression controls. The best part is that all three control sets are freeware—no royalties or fees, ever.

EclipseUI99.ocx is much smaller than MSCOMCTL.OCX, and has many of the same features: a "flat" style toolbar, status bars, progress bars, common dialog boxes, an animation control, and even more, like a text box control with a browse button attached, an Internet/E-Mail link control, headers, a group of option buttons, a color selector, and more. EclipseHook is a Windows message interceptor control, provided as a separate file so you can distribute it by itself. EclipseHook even automates tasks like restricting window size, and it gives you control over the IntelliMouse wheel. Finally, there is EclipseCabinet, a set of two controls that allow you to add compression and decompression support to your applications in half a dozen lines of code, using Microsoft Cabinet (CAB) files. Compress a database, a library of photos, or even an entire folder structure—however you see fit. It's easy, quick, and straightforward.

No documentation is currently available for the EclipseUI base controls, but EclipseHook and EclipseCabinet come with complete, detailed help files, and EclipseCabinet also comes with CabCentral, a full sample with source code that you can build yourself (see below for more information). If you have any questions, please contact us, and we will be happy to answer them. The EclipseUI base controls (not including EclipseHook and EclipseCabinet) are not tested under Windows NT 4.0. Also, EclipseUI, EclipseHook, and EclipseCabinet are not designed for use on non-English versions of Windows, and thus may not operate properly on Arabic and Asian versions of Windows. Development on the EclipseUI suite stopped many years ago, and no updates to the software are planned.

The EclipseUI setup package includes all three control sets and the CabCentral sample program for EclipseCrossword. Merge Modules for Windows Installer setup developers are available below, as well as an EclipseUI98 to EclipseUI99 project converter application.

Important note: Several people have reported that EclipseCabinet does not work properly under Windows XP. We have tested EclipseCabinet on Windows XP and have not observed these problems, but at this time, we don't recommend that you use the EclipseCabinet controls in production applications. EclipseCabinet normally requires administrator access, but you can get around this requirement by distributing the EclipseCabinet99.chm, ecFCI.dll and ecFDI.dll files that are automatically generated in your system32 folder with your application. Please remember that we cannot guarantee the functionality of any of these controls in any specific environment.