In simple words, Background Worker is multi-threading solution without a hassle. Time-consuming operations like downloads and database transactions can cause your user interface (UI) to seem as though it has stopped responding while they are running. When you want a responsive UI and you are faced with long delays associated with such operations, Background Worker provides a convenient solution.

Profiler is a non-visual component to measure execution time of program codes. By placing any part of code inside the profiler’s start and stop block, you can find out how many times the block was executed and what were the average, minimum, and maximum execution times of the block.

The Image Work package provides a set of classes and procedures for basic image processing, like digital image filtering, image transformation, and logical and mathematical operations on images. The Image Work package contains 40 digital image filters, and has the feature to easily extend this set of filters by defining custom filters.

SunTime is a Delphi component for calculating times of sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and twilights for any geographical location on a specific date.

Creating and displaying an animated image cannot be easier. Add frames of the animation to an image list, and then Animate Image control animates them for you. Besides animating, you can use this control to show a single image from an image list.

The Wave Audio package contains a complete set of components and classes for playing, recording, and manipulating audio in wave format. For example, by this package you can easily merge several wave files in to a single file, or convert the format of a wave file on the fly. This package also contains an audio mixer control and an asynchronous and high resolution multimedia timer component.

Cursor View is control for displaying Windows mouse cursors. The control can show animated cursors as well as the static ones, and of course animate them.

SysImageList is a read-only ImageList component containing the icons, which Windows uses internally. These icons are toolbar icons and associated icons of files, folders, applications, and etc. This component also offers a feature for finding the associated icons of any file, folder, special folder, or even URL.

Gradient is a simple but fast control for drawing color gradients. The control can draw gradients in 24 predefined styles. In addition, it can shift and/or rotate the gradient colors, which is suitable for playing animated color gradients.

Rotate Image is an improved version of Delphi Image control that can display the images rotated at an arbitrary angle.