Why do Delphi-written applications not skin right in menus.
Friday, October 28, 2005 by RMagruder | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Reply #2 Wednesday, November 2, 2005 7:59 PM
If you send me an e-mail at [email protected], I'll send you the side by side images displaying the menu looks, along with my machine configuration and anything else you want to know.
Thanks,
Randy
Reply #3 Thursday, November 3, 2005 7:15 AM
Delphi apps tend to use ownerdrawn menus. In this case WB tries its best to make the menus look like the menu skin, but it can only do so much. If the skin just uses flat menus (like the Windows XP style) then there is no problem because the menu content area isn't being skinned.
The problem will be worse on skins which set the systemwide menu colours differently to the average colour of the menu skins.
Reply #4 Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:25 PM
I thought Delphi apps might've had owner-drawn components, but since I'm not a delphi developer, I wasn't sure. Thanks for the input, Neil.
RMagruder: You could upload files to http://www.freewebspace.net/guide/diskstorage.shtml and then reference them here. There should be an image button on the comment post toolbar that allows you specify a url to load the image from.
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
Reply #5 Monday, November 7, 2005 11:19 AM
In the meantime, can you tell me what version of Delphi was last used to compile StarDock Central? Delphi 7? It's important because if I'm going to go into the VCL source code and try to figure out how the painting may or may not be working 'standard' then I might be able to help supply the 'fix'.
Randy
Reply #6 Monday, November 7, 2005 1:46 PM
Stardock Central was developed in C++. Anything Delphi related in it's directory is there for the programs that were written in Delphi.
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
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Reply #1 Monday, October 31, 2005 2:01 PM
Hi Randy,
A screenshot (or a few) would definitely help to illustrate your situation. I'd also be interested to know which OS you're running (including any service packs) as well as your version of the WindowBlinds 5 Beta.
Since this software is still beta, it's expected to have issues, but thanks to the help of people like you we can work out all it's bugs. Thanks!
-Mike
[Stardock Support]