ImpulseStudio is a full-featured suite of ActiveX components for Visual Basic with 26 controls and a function/object library. ImpulseStudio puts Visual Basic programmers in control by letting them customize every aspect of its robust user interface controls, which are ideal for easily creating skinnable applications and standard, 2000-style applications. ImpulseStudio also allows developers to manipulate their own programs on a system level and implement multimedia with a high-resolution timer for animation, animated and graphical labels, quick and easy audio (WAV, MIDI, and MP3), buttons and forms of any shape .
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