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I tried to reproduce with the version 17.10 of alpha skins (with Acryl skin) with Delphi 12 Athens in both 32 and 64 bit and I could not reproduce your problem.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001Just a thought on the matter of Delphi 7 support.
Recent versions of Delphi already have a skinning engine contrary to Delphi 7.
I think that you might have a greater customer base on versions of Delphi that does not already have a skinning engine.Maybe a survey with your customers on which version of Delphi they use could be a good idea.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001In regards with the design screwed up, a screenshot might help to understand which part is not rendered correctly.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001If you are a business, you do not have the rights to use the community version. We learned that the hard way. Embarcadero sued us for that.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001From Delphi:
For a ShellTreeView it is Path.
For a ShellListVew it is Root.I don’t know if they work the same in C++ but it’s a good starting point.
And btw, those components are the same as TShellTreeView and TShellListView. The only difference for AlphaSkins’ one is that they are skinned. You can search the whole web, not just AlphaSkins’ forums for that kind of problems.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001Anything that updates the UI will be slower with AlphaSkins.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001I think what Support(Serge) meant is that you can start with Windows 11 Light skin and modify it to your liking.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001I have tried to reproduce in a small project, but I couldn’t reproduce the behavior of the demo app. I suppose it’s a bad build of the demo app.
Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001Doesn’t seems to be fixed in your demo app. I don’t know if it’s a bad build. (version 16.21)
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001Ok, thanks.
Modernizing all skins must have been a pain for you!
I always wondered how you manage to keep up with all those skins.
I only have 1 and it is quite a job to modify it.Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001I’ve attached a sample project showing the differences between scaling up or scaling down images vs using native images.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001I’ve attached 2 images describing what I have (oldalpha) and what it should become (newalpha).
Note that it shouldn’t be bigger. Only that the mask from the oldalpha be merge into the alpha channel of the png.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001To be more obvious, you need to use the BUTTON_BIG section
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001I supose he uses it as a filter. More you type less item there is in the list.
That’s what I would do.Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001Not sure if it’s related, but in Delphi 7 I get an error that the property DoubleBuffered is not found in the control TsComboBox.
Stephane Senecal
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Delphi programmer since 2001Now why TPaintBox is shit…
1. It does’t have a window,
4. It doesn’t get mouse wheel messages, key press, etc…Those are features that comes with a TWinControl based controls like the TPanel.
What makes the TPaintBox so light is that it doesn’t have a window handle. It uses its parent control window handle, but with the concequences of not being able to have focus and receive any window messages.Actually TsPanel is a container and therefore contains a lot of code to support/draw/update/repaint child controls,
what will slow down. Need to remove all code related to child controls.I might be wrong, but I think that if there’s no child controls, it should not impact performance in any meaningful way.
I subclass the class… (or how is it calling right?)
You were looking for deriving a class.
In my humble opinion, I think it could be a good idea to have a TsPaintBox optimized to combine the application’s drawing with AlphaSkins’ painting in a non flickering maner.
I’m just afraid that it might not be what you are looking for.Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001
