[DUG] D2006 menus and buttons

[John Bird]

Thanks for that.....

I am impressed by your modesty - for those who didn't know this web
contribution is by Jeremy himself.  This looks exactly what I was wondering
about "how do they do that?"...

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy North [mailto:jeremy.north at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 5:11 p.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] D2006 menus and buttons


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


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