Navisight is a combination of controls designed to help navigation through various types of UI - tasks, tools and more.

The controls can be combined together to mimic popular user interface trends. Using NavigationBar you will create toolboxes, categorized lists and view switchers. Using ExplorerBar you will create task choices and visually pleasing configuration and presentation bars. Whether you choose to host your own controls in ours or use the helpful ones provided, you can be sure the choice of renderers and smooth animation offered by the Navisight components will make your user interface that much more pleasant to use.

Configuring the controls in your own application is made easy by the comprehensive design time support offered by the library. Powerful designers ensure that integrating the Navisight controls in to your form takes a minimum of time and effort. Creating a navigation bar with several different categories and manipulating those categories is intuivite, and the ButtonBar control designer makes it easy to set up scrollable, versatile toolbars - whether used within the Navisight controls or on its own.

Combining the Navisight components allows you to mimic the "Outlook Bar" seen in Microsoft Outlook 2002 and earlier, or the toolbox in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, the component toolbox in Microsoft Visio 2003, and the Explorer bar seen in Windows XP and upwards. The packaged renderers make it a breeze to change the look and feel of your controls, and they adapt automatically to changes in the theme or visual style used. The renderers also provide a great base for custom drawing - it is easy to completely change the look and feel to your own liking on a modular level.

Full support is provided for 32bit PNG images with alpha channels, enabling you to assign high quality professional imagery to buttons and other elements for a great finish. Tooltips and keyboard mnemonics are also supported for additional accessibility.

All necessary properties are localizable for international customers, and right-to-left layout is fully supported for those locales that need it.

Navisight Key Features:

• NavigationBar
  - Easy to add to any container, configured out-of-the-toolbox for a simple one-category view.
  - Supports rendering with Office 2000, Office 2002 or Office 2003 appearance.
  - Rich designer integration means no collection editors - interact at design time just like you would at runtime.
  - Smooth animation of category changes for a sleek user experience.
  - Choice of animation types and speeds.
  - Any control can be hosted in a navigation category for maximum flexibility.
  - Keyboard mnemonics supported for greater accessibility.
  - Right-to-left aware for Hebrew, Arabic and similar languages.
• ButtonBar
  - Can be added to any container standalone or placed in a NavigationBar.
  - Add buttons to the scrollable list at design time or runtime, with full drag-and-drop support.
  - Supports rendering with Office 2000, Office 2002 or Office 2003 appearance.
  - Configure button spacing, highlight mode and image/text alignment for the perfect appearance.
  - Keyboard mnemonics supported for greater accessibility.
  - Right-to-left aware for Hebrew, Arabic and similar languages.
• ExplorerBar
  - Perfect for docking to the left of a list view, by default contains one category but easy to add more.
  - Automatic layout of child controls to make designing a pane layout a breeze.
  - Smooth animation effects roll up and fade out category elements as they are collapsed and expanded.
  - The WindowsXPRenderer class very closely matches the original Microsoft control, with full color schemes included.
  - Rich designer integration means no collection editors - interact at design time just like you would at runtime.
  Right-to-left aware for Hebrew, Arabic and similar languages.
• ImageHyperlink
  - Automatically inherits the parent Renderer to keep all interface colors in sync without the need for any code.
  Right-to-left aware for Hebrew, Arabic and similar languages.