--- In [email protected], "Linda Gerloff" <li...@...> wrote:
Linda, The DevExpress VCL component suite supports skinning of all their controls, plus they include a nice set of ribbon components that allow you to make your app look like the latest version of Outlook / MS Office 2007. There is also support for docking controls/forms and what not. DevExpress ships with about 25 "canned" skins for just about every taste, and they ship new ones a couple times a year. You can also design your own skins using their skin editor, but it is a tedious process. If you provide support for it, your users can change skins on the fly and the new colors and graphics propagate throughout your app. If you use a lot of database grids, give DevExpress QuantumGrids a look. Even if you don't use skins, their grids are state of the art, with user-customizable look and feel, sorting, filtering and grouping. Your users can do ad-hoc printed reports directly from the grids. I use DevExpress in all my apps, although admittedly, on D2007 & D2009. I am pretty sure the suite works on D7, but you should probably ask them. Good luck, Kevin G. McCoy > I have some customers complaining that my app looks old fashioned. I am > using the XPManifest, but that is becoming outdated these days. >
