The best solution is to make your application skinable, am using VCLSkin for more than 2 years and Its the Best and supports a lot of 3rd party controls.
Bahry Cosmin Prund wrote: >>On Friday, October 03, 2008 5:31 PM, Jesper Stenlund wrote: >>Subiect: 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. >> >> > >You'll need to use "ActionBars" and "ActionLists" to get the >look-and-feel for the menus. Once you add those to your application >you'll be able to make them customizable! If you don't want to use >Actions you'll need to look into 3rd party components for the look. I >myself find the Actions paradigm difficult to use for my applications. >To get the look-and-feel I'm using standard menus at design-time and I'm >using a smart procedure that turns those standard menus into ActionBars >at run-time (so I can avoid 3rd party components). > >If you only do the usual stuff with menus, you'll find Actions easy to >use. I find them difficult to use because most of my applications have >at least one dynamic menu (a menu that gets created at run-time based on >configuration options). > > > >>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. >> >> > >What's not rendered in the expected color? Is it a control (a Button) or >is it a panel? If it's a button you'll need to replace it with a button >from the Standard or Advanced page (standard TButton or an TBitBtn). If >it's a panel that doesn't get the XP Dialog look, I don't know how you >can easily fix it. I made a TPanel descendent that has an property to >select the kind of XP theaming drawing to apply to it. I can place that >panel on any form and give it the XP Dialog look (the whitish >background). > >-- >Cosmin Prund >_______________________________________________ >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
