[DUG] Components / PageControl

[Robert martin]

Hi Jeremy

Yeah we already do some of the stuff you are talking about.  However our 
actual issue is with the standard button showing a different background 
colour to the flat button mode. in themed mode.  In vista and probably 
XP if your style is right, changing modes (flat v normal) produces a 
different background colour.  Normal (default) uses the themed colour 
whereas flat uses clbtnFace or something similar.


Rob Martin
Software Engineer

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Wild Software Ltd



Jeremy North wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK I haven't really been following this thread but...
>
> How about:
>
> TTabControl and set TabVisible on the pagecontrol pages to False. Set
> the style of the pagecontrol to Buttons (or FlatButtons) - which
> reduces the border.
>
> or
>
> TTabSet and parent your "pages" on a Panel when the Tab has been
> changed. (So basically don't have a pagecontrol at all). Encapsulate
> the page functionality into a frame and reparent the frame.
>
> The attachment uses the second technique although the listview is the
> TTabSet in this instance. Each "page" descends from a BaseFrame that
> has virtual methods that are called when changing to a page. I don't
> have the source with me but some of the methods are:
>
>  LoadOptions // retrieve the options from storage
>  SaveOptions // save options to storage
>  ActiveControl // returns a control to set as the active control for
> when the tab gets changed to.
>
> This has the advantage of being less resource intensive as well
> because not all pages are generally loaded at once by the user.
>
> I also have a custom TPageControl that removes the "border" but don't
> have the code here either. Email me directly if you'd like it. You
> only need to override one method of the TPageControl.
>
> HTH,
>
> cheers,
> Jeremy
>
>
> On 4/20/07, Robert martin <rob at wildsoft.co.nz> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> No you cant.  You get a nice white border around your grey (btnFace)
>> panel.
>>
>> Rob Martin
>> Software Engineer
>>
>> phone +64 03 377 0495
>> fax   +64 03 377 0496
>> web www.chreos.com
>>
>> Wild Software Ltd
>>
>>
>>
>> Rohit Gupta wrote:
>> > As mentioned before, cant you solve it by putting a panel on each tab
>> > of the pagecontrol ?
>> >
>> > Robert martin wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Rob Martin
>> >> Software Engineer
>> >>
>> >> phone +64 03 377 0495
>> >> fax   +64 03 377 0496
>> >> web www.chreos.com
>> >>
>> >> Wild Software Ltd
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> We have been looking further at our problems with TPageControl in
>> >> Vista.  Originally we thought we could fix the problem (or 
>> TDBEdits not
>> >> being the same colour as the page by adding ParentBackground as a
>> >> property - didn't work).  However the problem is worse as 
>> pagecontrols
>> >> with 'Flatbuttons' show as clbtnFace while normal tabs show as 
>> white (on
>> >> Vista).  We have flat tab pages inside normal tab pages and so end up
>> >> with the situation where Some tabs are white while some tabs are
>> >> clBtnFace.
>> >>
>> >> We are considering changing to a third party component that allows 
>> us to
>> >> fix the colours.  What do you guys think of this as a solution?
>> >>
>> >> We are considering getting the tms software component pack for the
>> >> TadvPagecontrol and some other components that look usefull.  Has 
>> anyone
>> >> used these / comments?
>> >>
>> >> What would others recommend?  There is a component set everyone 
>> always
>> >> talks about but I forget the name?
>> >>
>> >> TIA
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