Thanks for that..... I am impressed by your modesty - for those who didn't know this web contribution is by Jeremy himself. This looks exactly what I was wondering about "how do they do that?"...
John -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy North [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 5:11 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] D2006 menus and buttons Check out the TActionManager component and various controls on the Additional tab. There is a demo that ships called Wordpad. It is in the \Demos\ActnBands folder. You can also create your own custom styles. http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33461,00.html cheers, Jeremy On 5/16/06, John Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using the XP Themes component, which is great. This gives > rounded buttons with a faint orange mouse over effect - its a standard > XP feature. However I have also see other effects which I like which I > haven't yet got: > > I am wondering about the buttons and menu items widely available in > Windows XP, for instance in Outlook 2002 and in the Delphi 2006 IDE - > buttons that are invisible or flat with a mouse over blue highlight > and similar blue highlights on the main menu items current item. > > Are these available in D2006? > > (Up to now I have been using my own modified tjbclColorbutton which > has full control over foreground and background colour, and also > mouse-over foreground and background colour and optional bolding of text with mouse > over.....looks ok if I do say so myself. Available as giveaway if anyone > interested). The XP buttons I have seen in the IDE and Outlook I do > prefer though - as they add border effects. > > > John Bird __________ NOD32 1.1461 (20060329) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
