[DUG] Modern Appearance.

[John Bird]

Up to now I have been using D5, but itching to go to a later version.
Partly for some newer features (printing/TClientDataSet).
 
Mainly for more control over forms appearance - the main things I would like
are:
 
-Control over colour of form title bar caption
-finer colour and font control
-XP like Page control  with the gold tab hot-tracking
-buttons with flat border option, and hot-tracking buttons, rounded buttons
-transparent forms (Alpha blend) - for a tiny utility window open on the
screen much of the time this not only looks great, its useful.
 
Examples of the undestated refined look are like in Yahoo Messenger, where
almost everything is in either white. light grey or pale blue (Form title
bar).  I notice on BDN that such appearances are common in D2005/2006 IDE as
well.
 
I do have Virtual Tree View and XP Themes loaded - I don't know how
completely this gives any these goodies compared to later Delphi versions
 
Question - could you recommend the best upgrade version to get these XP like
effects, and any links on issues involved (I assume in most cases Win98 etc
just ignore some of the XP type windows effects and require no separate
programming).  I know that almost all of these can be got individually with
add-on components, or descending from existing (and I have done colour
hot-tracking buttons myself to show it can be done), but I really want the
lot, so more logical to  go to a later version.
 

John Bird

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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Friday, 28 October 2005 1:21 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] D2005 Cut Paste Components


Here is one that I thought I had read had been a problem.
 
I've got Update 3 onboard, so it prob. not that.
 
But I can not Cut any components on a form.
 
Any one encountered/solved this?
 
Paul

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