[DUG] png buttons, actionbars

[Stephen Barker]

Thanks Jeremy,

I'll look into those styles some more...

Did you use png glyphs with yours?

It might be simpler for me to go back to bmp versions of the glyphs for now.

cheers,
Steve 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy North [mailto:jeremy.north at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2007 10:56 a.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] png buttons, actionbars
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The architecture behind the ActionManager stuff is pretty good once
> you get your head around it. It is easy to create new "styles" and use
> those. I personally have a Vista style (the Vista style uses separate
> imagelists for normal and disabled images), an Office2003 style (as
> seen in my QC Client) and also part* of the Office Ribbon implemented.
> 
> Since Delphi 2007 was a non-breaking release, many of my fixes and
> enhancements to the ActionManager code base couldn't be used. A number
> of items were fixed in Delphi 2006 as I was in close contact with
> Steve Trefethen (original author) at the time. (he has since left
> CodeGear).
> 
> I am anticipating that for Delphi 2008 more of the breaking fixes and
> enhancements will be used.
> 
> I have an article on the CodeGear site that shows how to customise an
> existing style and add some candy. There were some compromise made in
> the article that are not in the real code I use.
> 
> You can view the article at: http://dn.codegear.com/article/33461
> 
> As for where the shadows are drawn for the XP style it is in the
> XPActnCtrls unit. The DrawGlyph method of the TXPStyleMenuItem class.
> 
> If you would like a custom style and don't want to go to the effort of
> starting from scratch, I'm sure we could work something out.
> 
> cheers,
> Jeremy
> 
> On 10/3/07, Alister Christie <alister at salespartner.co.nz> wrote:
> > I've been using PNGComponents (http://thany.org) for awhile now and
> > found them pretty good.  I've never actually used a 
> TActionToolBar (I
> > probably should investigate more) but can verify the problem your
> > having.  It will probably relate to the TActionToolBar 
> trying to draw
> > the shadows and not having support for the alpha channel - I suspect
> > fixing this would be challenging, I've had a quick look at 
> the source
> > but can't find the code that specifically draws the shadow - however
> > many of the related methods are virtual so you maybe able to write a
> > descendant with better PNG support.  I unfortunately have 
> to disappear
> > onsite with a client (otherwise I'd try to track it down).
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