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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
I'll find out in a couple of weeks. Regards Sean Cross CIO Catalyst Risk Management From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of PDS - John Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 9:30 p.m. To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy 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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
There is no D2008. Do you mean D2007? If so, unless there is unicode specific issues (which would exist going to D2009) then I'd highly doubt you'd have any issues going to D2010. Especially for appearance. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, PDS - Johnj...@padasy.co.nz wrote: 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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Making apps look fancy
What are people using to make applications look fancy. AlphaSkins looks pretty cool, as does TMS SmoothControls Has anyone used these, or something similar? -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
I found the TMS MSooth controls a bit O.T.T personally. Run your apps. on Vista or Win7 and they will look pretty ;-) Jeremy On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: What are people using to make applications look fancy. AlphaSkins http://www.alphaskins.com/ looks pretty cool, as does TMS SmoothControls http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/advsmoothcontrols.asp Has anyone used these, or something similar? -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
Most bang for the bucks comes from making sure you can get at the XP and Vista themes - the XPManifest component in D2006 onwards, especially D2007 on goes in every project of minegives the later sets of controls in COMCTL32.DLL rather than the old non-themed ones if the destination PC has them. The themed buttons and other standard VCL in XP/Vista are pretty cool - in Vista a button that has focus but the mouse is not currently on gets a slow blue pulse. I get the rippling progress bar with TProgress as well. I used to use a variant button I tweaked myself called TJBCLColorButton that has color options for text, background, (split colours for background to give 3d effect), and mouse-over altered style and colours for text and background too0, but the standard Windows themed controls are even nicer - so prefer them now. So there is something to be said about staying away from 3rd party components when the free ones are that good. Watch out for page controls though, the panels become white. You can fix it with a TPanel over each page. Apart from that, bitbuttons, are cool. And a bit of AlphaBlending goes a long way too - you can easily have forms fade in and out, a slightly transparent look can look classy, or you can have it become opaque (Alphablend=255) slowly on a timer when the mouse is over the form. All of these require only VCL and D2007 in my case. John___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
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___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
