Evaluation Licensing

The default installation for ThumbnailXpress includes Evaluation licensing. This allows you to test all component features and functions and develop applications, but not distribute them. Installing ThumbnailXpress in evaluation mode provides access to all features and functionality of ThumbnailXpress. E-mail support is available with the evaluation license.

During evaluation of Accusoft products, Evaluation Toolkit licenses can be used to try out products. However, the product behavior is limited by trial dialog pop-ups, timeouts, or evaluation watermarks. When you determine the product is a good fit, you can purchase a Toolkit license to eliminate trial dialog pop-ups, timeouts, and evaluation watermarks.

Applications built with an evaluation license can only be run on a computer that has ThumbnailXpress Licensing installed on it. See Runtime Licensing for information on licensing requirements to deploy applications built using ThumbnailXpress.

An evaluation dialog similar to the following evaluation dialog is displayed when you have a valid evaluation license.

However, if you attempt to execute a function that is not licensed in the edition license you are using (e.g., if you have a paid license for ImagXpress Standard and attempt to execute a function available only in ImagXpress Professional), an evaluation dialog similar to the following is displayed.

If no license is found in the registry, a dialog similar to the following will be displayed.

Changing Evaluation Mode Behavior

You have the flexibility to change the behavior of ThumbnailXpress in evaluation mode. Evaluation mode behavior can be defined by setting the EvaluationMode property to one of these values:

TN_Dialog (default value) – TrialDialog specifies that a dialog box should be used during evaluation.
TN_Watermark – All thumbnails are permanently watermarked with 'Eval'.