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Tesseract has undergone some internal changes to fix a few problems and to allow for new features to be added. The most notable changes are:

• When rendering controls, the clip area is their parents path (previously they were clipped to their own path)
• Controls are now rendered based upon a changeable base color for each state (normal, mouse over, mouse down)
• Text controls AutoSize property now resizes more accurately
• Text is centered correctly on controls (previously it was a few % of the controls size off-center)
• TIM can now use attributes as well as child elements to set some properties & all events

The result of these changes is shown below:

A new ProgressBar control can be seen, however the most noticeable change is the clipping when combined with the enhancements in the control rendering using base colors, as can be seen in the green button ("Btn2 (Zoom)"). The buttons color is changed by specifying a green semi-transparent base color in the TIM XML, the border & text colors are also changed in the XML. No over & down state colors are specified, so Tesseract automatically generates lighter & darker versions of the green base color for the buttons mouse over & down states. The border is also semi-transparent and is much thicker than the standard border, which is where the clipping change can be best seen:

The above image shows the green button when the windows Zoom property is set to 3 (all dimensions are 3x larger than usual). By looking closely, the semi-transparency of the border is visible, as the area inside the controls fill is darker (this is most visible on the left with the lighter background). Prior to the clipping change, the border would not have been visible outside of the controls path, so only the parts of the border within the controls path would be seen, destroying the rounded corners. The images above show the flexibility of Tesseracts' controls & rendering, allowing a controls appearance to be drastically altered by specifying just a few properties.

The XML used to create the above is attached.