Visual VCL Pack1 provides for over 30 VCL components and classes, 17 of which are design time controls. The controls fall into four broad catagories namely edit controls, utility controls and graphical selection controls and custom drop down combo controls The edit controls comprises of a rich edit 2.0 control, which supports OLE linking and embedding, and a Listbox control which caters for the display of both text and images. The utility controls comprise of a spell checker control, design time storage controls which are a binary streaming control, a stringlist streaming control as well as a file storage control. in addition, the utility controls include a 128 bit encryption control. The graphical selection controls comprise of a 3-D image array control