Custom animated controls

Hi folks,

I want to create a toolkit for myself with lots of custom controls heavy on smooth animation. I don't want to use any O.S. specific calls and was wondering what folks would recommend architecture-wise.

My requirements are:

* The ability to have any useful event I want.
* Smooth animation.
* Fast end-user response.

Thanks!

What kind of animation? Are you talking like your own horizontally scrolling component, fading button, etc?

Good question. I would be interested in:

2d sprite
3d polygon
scrolling
zooming
rotation
translucency

I would be creating the buttons, edits, combos, lists, maps, spheres, canvas', and reporting elements.

Thanks.

Extend Component or a specific type of component.

Thank you sir! Any pitfalls / limitatations / learned lessons I should be aware of?