[DUG] D2006 menus and buttons

[Jeremy North]

Check out the TActionManager component and various controls on the
Additional tab. There is a demo that ships called Wordpad. It is in
the \Demos\ActnBands folder.

You can also create your own custom styles.

http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33461,00.html

cheers,
Jeremy

On 5/16/06, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> I am using the XP Themes component, which is great.  This gives rounded
> buttons with a faint orange mouse over effect - its a standard XP feature.
> However I have also see other effects which I like which I haven't yet got:
>
> I am wondering about the buttons and menu items widely available in Windows
> XP, for instance in Outlook 2002 and in the Delphi 2006 IDE - buttons that
> are invisible or flat with a mouse over blue highlight and similar blue
> highlights on the main menu items current item.
>
> Are these available in D2006?
>
> (Up to now I have been using my own modified tjbclColorbutton which has full
> control over foreground and background colour, and also mouse-over
> foreground and background colour and optional bolding of text with mouse
> over.....looks ok if I do say so myself.   Available as giveaway if anyone
> interested).  The XP buttons I have seen in the IDE and Outlook I do prefer
> though - as they add border effects.
>
>
> John Bird