Just a mind stimulus by showing what could be done. Remember, this is not an advertisement for AlphaControls. I have tried the TForms AlphaBlend property. labels, buttons and possibly TEdits/TMemos) that show their text as opaque. Id like to be able to display a form alphablended (so you can see through. The attachment shows a button in LazSkins and a standard Windows button in AlphaControls, both skinned with the Office 7 skin. AlphaBlend only the form-NOT the text of the controls on it. And even then, the LazSkins controls do not look very good.
ALPHA CONTROLS DELPHI SKIN
However, AlphaSkins can skin standard controls too. Satisfactory results can only be obtained with controls that use the skinning capabilities to their advantage. That is a simplistic approach to skinning. LazSkins only works by skinning standard controls.
ALPHA CONTROLS DELPHI UPDATE
By setting the SkinSection of a panel to 'CHECKBOX', the panel becomes totally transparent.Īccording to their website, LazSkins is limited to a Windows version and the last update is from April 2010 (i.e. Embarcadero GetIt The package of controls with support of AlphaSkins and extended functionality. Setting the SkinSection of a button to 'TABTOP' will show the button the way a tab looks if on top of a tabsheet. That can be set to the name of another control. So, each visible control has a property SkinSection. That should be part of the SkinManager.ĪlphaControls does allow any of its controls to mimic another one. The package contains everything you need to add neat and, more important, truly professional appearance. With such a setup, the Lazarus "Custom Drawn Controls" do not qualify as a basis for the controls in this library, because they carry the DrawStyle property. The Advanced Application Controls (AppControls) is the set of over 92 top quality multipurpose components for all Win32 versions of Delphi and C Builder. Furthermore it provides for a lot of drawing functions that the governed controls can call. Windows did not use the C1 control codes, so this decision had.
ALPHA CONTROLS DELPHI CODE
One of its tasks is to take over WndProc to handle both the standard messages and the custom messages for the controls it governs. These assignments are also present in many other ANSI/Windows code pages at the same code-points. The SkinProvider takes care of the actual drawing. The SkinManager among others is the repository for the internal skins (you can have external skins too) and the place to define the actual skin in use (there are more than 80 of them).
The point of my new topic is that controls may be constructed in any way you want, but as long as they're not subject to a theming vehicle, they're not complete.ĪlphaControls starts with a SkinManager and one or more SkinProviders.
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