With the recent release of Help+Manual 6 we got a lot of positive feedback about the new user interface. Especially Delphi programmers asked us, how we implemented the welcome screen.

The welcome screen is a panel which renders animated tiles over an optional background image. Tiles are semitransparent and can display images and text. Animations include the tiles popping up intitially and sliding in and out. We got inspired by the Windows 8 Metro UI for this.

Watch this YouTube videoto see it in action:

Good news for all of you who are curious about it: the welcome screen is now available as a stand-alone component for Delphi XE2 and XE. Full source code is included, of course, as is with all our Delphi stuff.

Download:
http://www.helpandmanual.com/downloads_delphi.html

Enjoy!