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
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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
: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
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
What are people using to make applications look fancy.
AlphaSkins looks pretty cool,
as does TMS
SmoothControls
Has anyone used these, or something similar?
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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
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
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
