I can say that Delphi 7 works fine on Windows 8. Most likely you need a manifest resource included in your main form. I've attached one. Add it to your Uses clause. -----Original Message----- From: Delphi [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher CJH. Hart Sent: Friday, 3 January 2014 3:15 a.m. To: Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi Programming excluding Database-related topics Subject: RE: Form close button not visible (sometimes) on Windows 8.1
Development environments, and operating systems continue to evolve. To avoid lots of issues, it is mandatory to keep your development environment reasonably current. -----Original Message----- From: Delphi [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brendan Blake Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 7:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Form close button not visible (sometimes) on Windows 8.1 I've been running tests of quite an old but fairly complicated application on a new Windows 8.1 machine. My 8.1 desktop uses the default theme and is unmodified. I'm still using Delphi 5, as I've really moved on to other environments, but for Win32 Delphi 5 still does everything I need, so why pay to upgrade! I didn't notice the behaviour before upgrading to 8.1 but it may well have applied there also. I have discovered that on some forms the close button does not show correctly. I get a white area instead of the usual buttons but the close button is in fact there if you click on the correct location - it just doesn't show. I've spent quite a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of why this happens on some forms but not on others, but haven't come up with a set of rules that always seems to apply. I find I can fix the problem by setting the form property autoscroll off and then on again, or even just leaving if off. Or just fiddling around changing properties and then changing them back. But this doesn't always work and isn't consistent. The main form is OK. The problem was first noted on applications compiled on Windows XP. However, I managed to successfully install Delphi on Windows 8.1; code compiled on 8.1 also shows the same behaviour. Brendan Blake. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
