Hi Jesper go to www.jrsoftware.org and you will find the xp theme unit. There is a readme file which tells you all you need
I use this unit with D5 and it works a treat regards Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesper Stenlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:30:39 +0200 Subject: GUI-questions > Hi all > > I have a program that originally was created in -98 with Delphi 3 (on > Windows NT) > Since then we have moved from Delphi 3 to Delphi 5 and now Delphi 2006 (we > will soon upgrade to D2009) and the OS has been upgraded to XP. > > But the program still looks the same as it did in -98. No > "XP-look-and-feel" at all. > Now we want to upgrade the GUI to look like a real XP-program. > That includes everything from menus to buttons and now I have a couple of > questions on how to do this. > > 1. How can I get a menu that looks like the one in Microsoft Word or the > one in Delphi itself? My menu is still grey and rather ugly compared to > Delphi's. > > 2. I have tried the "XP-manifest" component but it seems that certain > components don't repaint themselves in XP-way. > The background colour of the component is still grey instead of the more > white colour that is on the other components. > The background colour of the components is usually set to clBtnFace. > > 3. Is it easier to get the XP-look-and-feel with D2009 than D2006? > > > > Can someone tell me what to do to get the XP-style in an easy way? > Is there some websites out there where I can find information about this?` > > Thanks in advance. > > > //Jesper Stenlund > > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
