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DIC Now supports RAD Studio XE8

I just added support RAD Studio XE8 to the Delphi IDE Colorizer  plugin, the new version (0.7.7.7) includes several improvements like the support for style owner draw controls of the IDE like the Device Manager.

Check the next screenshots with the VCL Style glow applied

XE8_CodeEditor

XE8_MobilView

 

If you want set your IDE with the same look of the images use these settings

 

XE8_Setttings

For more info about the plugin check these pages

If you want report a issue or suggest  a new feature please use the issue page of the project.

Regards

Rodrigo.


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DITE supports RAD Studio XE8 and Modern Theme

I just added support for RAD Studio XE8 to the Delphi IDE Theme Editor (1.8.1.0).   DITEXE8 Also a new feature was introduced to allow edit the values (color and font) of the modern theme (only available in XE8). To use it just press the button “Additional Settings” and set values for the Main ToolBar and the IDE Font, finally press the button “Apply”. Also you can restore the default settings pressing the button “Restore”.   Additional

 Screenshots

1 2 3 4 5 You can download the DITE from here


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Delphi Dev.Shell Tools, WDCC, Delphi Preview Handler moved to Github

I just moved more projects from Code Google to GitHub

Regards Rodrigo.


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VCL Styles Utils – Major Update (Dialogs, ProgressBar, DateTimePicker, ListView and more)

A Major updated was made to the VCL Styles Utils project. This version include several fixes and new features.

Vcl.Styles.Hooks

The Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit is the most updated part of this new release. This unit is the responsible of hook some of the UxTheme and WinApi methods like DrawThemeBackground, GetSysColor and GetSysColorBrush. Which allows take the control of the painting process for the system themed (and owner-draw) controls.

ListView

This new release fix the highlight color used on the selected items and also replace the themed checkBox by a styled checkbox.

ListView with VCL Styles
2014-11-04 11_08_19-Demo

ListView with VCL Styles + Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit
2014-11-04 11_08_55-Demo

Also was added support for style the Listview groups.

ListView with VCL Styles

2014-11-04 11_11_23-Demo

ListView with VCL Styles + Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit

2014-11-04 11_12_45-Demo

DateTime Controls

The Styling of the TMonthCalendar and TDatetimepicker components is one of the limitations of the VCL Styles, because such components are owner-draw by the system and doesn’t allow to customize the look and feel when the native themes are enabled (for more information read these TMonthCalendar and TDatetimepicker ) also only the newest versions of Delphi includes a partial styling support for such components. With this new release the styling of these controls is now possible.

TDateTimePicker and TMonthCalendar with VCL Styles

2014-11-04 11_29_24-Demo - RAD Studio XE7 - uMain [Running] [Built]

TDateTimePicker and TMonthCalendar with VCL Styles + Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit

2014-11-04 11_54_31-Demo - Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 - Vcl.Styles.Hooks [Running] [Built]

ProgressBar

Improved support for the TProgressbar component without flicker and with Marquee style.

2014-11-04 14_48_10-Demo

Select Directory Dialog

The styling for the select directory dialog was enhanced adding support for the open and close glyphs and fixing the color of the highlight bar.

VCL Styles Utils

2014-11-04 15_01_14-Browse For Folder

VCL Styles Utils + Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit

2014-11-04 15_01_52-Greenshot

Open/Save Dialog

The VCL Styles support of the Open and Save dialogs was improved adding styling for groups and highlight items. Also a fix for the select folder combobox was introduced.

VCL Styles Utils

2014-11-04 15_12_50-Open

2014-11-04 15_20_49-Open

2014-11-04 15_26_07-ThemedSysControls - Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 - ThemedSysControls.dproj [Runnin

VCL Styles Utils + Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit

2014-11-04 15_14_27-Open

2014-11-04 15_21_25-Open

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VCL Styles Utils – Now supports the TTaskDialog component

I’m very pleased to introduce a very exciting new feature to the VCL Styles Utils project. This is the support for style the TTaskDialog component and all the TaskDialog based Message dialogs. This control available since RAD Studio 2007 is a wrapper for the Task Dialogs introduced in Windows Vista and allows to create very rich and flexible dialogs.

Take a look to some sample dialogs.

2014-10-09 09_48_43-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_41_40-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_42_31-Greenshot

2014-10-09 09_47_41-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_47_52-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_48_07-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_48_19-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_48_31-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

And now enabling the VCL Styles and just adding the Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit to your project…..

2014-10-09 09_57_33-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_58_01-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_58_28-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_58_55-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_52_55-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_54_40-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_55_11-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_55_40-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_56_04-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

2014-10-09 09_56_42-VCL Styles Utils - TTaskDialogs Demo

You can download a sample application from the project repository.
Also a compiled demo is available here.

If you found any bug please use the issue page of the project.

For a quick tutorial of how use the TTaskDialog component check this great Inofficial TTaskDialog Documentation.

Rodrigo.