[DUG] Making apps look fancy

[PDS - John]

Hi all

 

All those fancy objects look really cool, but I wonder, will an app written
e.g. in D2008 with those objects work in Delphi2010?

 

John C

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Sean Cross
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 8:19 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy

 

I use mustang peak http://www.mustangpeak.net/ drop down forms for this.

 

I (conceptually) set a timer when the user starts typing.  Every xxx ms, I
run a query and populate a component on the drop down form.

 

Depending on where I using it, and how slow the search is, I run the search
is in the main thread or a background thread.

 

In my main app, I just run refresh a stored proc component when the user
stops typing for a brief time, and do it in the main thread.  That is plenty
quick enough.  In other apps though, I have run searches in a background
thread and only done the vcl update in the main thread.

 

Sean

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: 12 August 2009 5:39 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy

 

One thing I would like to be able to do more is the live search boxes, like
the Vista start menu/Firefox Address bar/latest Google search results/etc
which populate the lists as you type.

 

What is others opinion on the best way to do these in Delphi?  (especially
using standard VCL and non-data aware controls).

 

I see Delphi 2010 brings in such a feature to the IDE, it does a simple
non-indexed search behind the scenes apparently.

 

John

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