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Rad Studio XE2 introduced a feature called VCL Styles. This functionality allows you to apply a skin (theme) to any VCL Forms application. For more information, you can check the official documentation, VCL Styles Overview.

Rad Studio XE2 introduced a feature called VCL Styles. This functionality allows you to apply a skin (theme) to any VCL Forms application. For more information, you can check the official documentation, VCL Styles Overview.

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How do I write a TDBCtrlGrid VCL Style custom class?

There are lots of questions here about XE2 VCL Styles and custom colors for Buttons, Panels, edits, etc, and VCL Styles. As much as I wish the existing questions covered it, they don't... So DB Control Grids appear to be Yet Another Special…
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What can I do about maximized, styled windows, which show their borders on adjacent monitors?

On a multi-monitor system, a "blank" VCL application maximizes fine, but the same application with styles enabled (and one chosen as default) maximizes incorrectly. What I'm seeing is the right-hand edge of the window extend onto the 2nd monitor (my…
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How to disable VCL styles in Delphi

I am using the new VCL styles system in Delphi XE2. It works great, but I wish to disable it for a particular form that has a number of images on it (a splash/about form). Problem is I can't seem to find a property of the form that associates it…
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Delphi VCL styles tutorial - how to change the style at runtime

Is there a good VCL Styles tutorial where we see how to dynamically (in run time) load/change the style ? This should work with Delphi XE2 and up, since XE2 is the first version with VCL Styles.
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Is there any Delphi XE2 styles gallery?

In XE2 there is a new function : 'styles', for VCL(.vsf) and Firemonkey (.styles), and some are provided in C:\Program Files\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0\Redist\styles directory. As it seems to be easy to create a new style, is there any 'styles…
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How I can change the color of a TPanel with the VCL Styles enabled?

I need to change the color of a TPanel when the VCL styles are enabled. I tried using and modifying the code listed in the article Changing the color of Edit Controls with VCL Styles Enabled, but it is not working for a TPanel. How I can change the…
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Disabling TButton issue on a VCL styled form

When I try to disable a Button on a styled VCL from using the follwing line of code TButton(Sender).enabled:= False; I get the this result (Button disabled at runtime) instead of this!! (Button disabled at design time) It's really confusing to…
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VCL Styles - client size of form reduced

I don't know if it's a bug... But when I set any other VCL style except for "Windows", the window width is reduced. - Is there any solution for this? UPDATE I submitted this to QC: http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=103697 Hope they'll…
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How I can apply a vcl style to a TPopupmenu?

I'm using the vcl styles in a Delphi XE2 application, but when i popup a TPopupmenu this is show using the native windows look and feel, exist any way to apply the vcl style colors to the TPopUpMenu?
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how to make a transparent form when a VCL Style is enabled?

I'm using the following code to make a form transparent, but when the application has a VCL style enabled the form is paint with the background color of the VCL style instead of be transparent. uses Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages,…
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Using custom styles shows invalid characters when right-clicking a file in TOpenDialog

See steps below to reproduce. Works well in XE2 but not XE8. Create a new VCL Forms Application - Delphi Place a TButton and a TOpenDialog on the form In the button OnClick event call OpenDialog1.Execute Run the program, open the file dialog, and…
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Visual bug in Windows title bar with VCL Styles enabled application and display scaling

Currently I am testing various aspects of VCL styles enabled applications. I noticed, that with Windows scaling higher than the default 96 dpi/100%, the icon and the title bar text of the VCL Form are too big in size - and both are to close…
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VCL Styles breaks randomly

I have a control derived from TMemo. It worked nice until I used for the first time with Delphi XE7 VCL Styles. Under Delphi XE7, styles are not applied to the scroll bars of the control. If dark theme/style is used, it looks horrible, while the…
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VCL-Style Issues in DLL

I have developed a DLL having one form. I have set a style to it using below code. library TestLib; uses Vcl.Themes, Vcl.Styles,.... . . exports function1, function2; begin TStyleManager.TrySetStyle('Style1'); end. When I load this dll…
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How to get the Forms background color with VCL.Styles

Some components paint their color with the Color property setting even when vcl,styles are used. So when using a Metro dark style (nearly black) and a components color is set to clWindow the components color does not match the style. Is there a way…
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