A package of standard and unique skinable VCL's for professional UI design development using "AlphaSkins". AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications. We have also added some properties, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique. - Skins are upgradeable and have a very simple structure - The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time - Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects - It is possible to embed any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment - Working with the components is very simple and intuitive - Forms with shadows and translucent borders - And so on ...