Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29/01/2008, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the late response, I am backreading a bit - but I thought you should know this is NOT needed. gtkproc unit has a call load_rc I think which you can call in your application to load a custom theme file in a sepperate location for

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
Thanks for the response AJ. The other factor that comes into play is that we had lots of IFDEF's in our old code when we used Delphi and Kylix. Moving over to Lazarus we had the intent of not needing IFDEF's again as we run on mixed platforms. The above is a possible solution, but not ideal.

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread A.J. Venter
I remember I was told to use a custom theme file, but that would change it for all application, and I needed to change colors based on data entered in forms (validation things), so that solution was totally useless. Sorry for the late response, I am backreading a bit - but I thought you should

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29/01/2008, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I wasn't actually saying it would be the answer for you right now - but I wanted to fix the misconception - it is possible to use a custom theme for just your program, ship it with it etc. I understand that you can ship a custom theme

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Alexsander Rosa
Open Office will have all sorts of users, many of them are individuals with different tastes. They have favorite OS, theme, etc. Some of them are old, some have disabilities. It's a vastly heterogeneous population with very different needs. Each user has his own Desktop Environment and the

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:35:56PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It's more than look and basic behaviour: - keyboard handling - disability support - internationalisation support - behaviour when scaling - following future extensions a bit. (See e.g. the site how to update Delphi

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Alexsander Rosa
OpenOffice needs to blend in the user's interface. SAP R/3 does not. Different users, different needs. 2008/1/29, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:04:11PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It would be nice if what you said was documented on the Lazarus wiki

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:04:11PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It would be nice if what you said was documented on the Lazarus wiki though (if it's not already there). It might be handy for other users. Agree. It was a nice post. One thing keeps coming up in usability studies - every

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 29/01/2008, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's more than look and basic behaviour: - keyboard handling - disability support - internationalisation support - behaviour when scaling - following future extensions a bit. (See e.g. the site how to update Delphi apps to vista

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Valdas Jankūnas
Graeme Geldenhuys rašė: On 29/01/2008, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I wasn't actually saying it would be the answer for you right now - but I wanted to fix the misconception - it is possible to use a custom theme for just your program, ship it with it etc. I understand that you

Re: [lazarus] Introduction - NOTE FOR GRAHAM

2008-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:50:11AM -0300, Alexsander Rosa wrote: OpenOffice needs to blend in the user's interface. SAP R/3 does not. Why not? They might get a way with it, but is it a hard requirement that SAP does not blend in? Different users, different needs. _IS_ it a need? Or something