> I have some customers complaining that my app looks old fashioned. I am
> using the XPManifest, but that is becoming outdated these days. Maybe your problem isn't with the XPManifest. I recently worked with an app designed by a guy who might have been an Access programmer, It looked like an Access program,or one of Delphi's old db standard demo's like "MastApp" That whole paradigm is going to look "old fashioned" to many people. More and more apps are being designed with the Treeview concept in conjunction with an Outlook-like app navigator. Dave --- On Sat, 7/11/09, Kevin McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kevin McCoy <[email protected]> Subject: [delphi-en] Re: How to modernize the GUI of apps made with D7 To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 3:07 PM --- In delphi...@yahoogrou ps.com, "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 using the XPManifest, but that is becoming outdated these days. > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
