NewLook was designed and released to be simply the best and most effective library to build Delphi application with graphic interface.
From very beginning I took very serious intention of regarding windows resources using and performance.
In this library used very clever way of using any images and windows regions (yes - you can have any shapes of buttons, form and etc.).
You will have image or region manager (actually you can have more than one, it's just depend from you will and task).
Access to any graphics resources such as images and regions goes thru this managers which allow to keep only ONE copy of each object in memory and gives to components which want to use it only links!
So now you will have only one copy of each image or region in your project.
No more pain with huge .exe size and images update!
This managers can be mirrored to the disk directory (you can easy have 10 different directories with different skins and easy switch it by only one line of code) or to special object which stores all images and regions (SkinStorage).
You can use all kind of images (*.bmp,*.jpg etc.). For speed purposes you can set options 'Convert to BMP'.
This means what images after loading will be converted to BMP which make painting very fast and save resources in same time.
Library also contains following components:
1. Button
2. Form
3. PageControl
4. Image
5. Menu
6. Some additional components
For all visual components except PageControl you can set windows regions to have nonrectangular shape.
You can even have resizeable forms!
Of course all components nice design time editors provided.
In this moment of time this library used in 3 big projects and works very stable.
Right now I'm busy writing some help and samples.
Meanwhile you can look at screenshots of one of application done with NewLook.

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