[Lazarus] TButton must now become a custom draw component

Marc Weustink marc at dommelstein.net
Wed Aug 6 23:33:11 CEST 2008


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes I had to mention this, because it was one of the things I bitched
> about so often in the past!.
> 
> As per the Lazarus design guidelines (I don't really know where those
> are), Lazarus *must* be as compatible with VCL as possible.  So after
> watching the "What's new in VCL" which is going to be Delphi 2009
> (Tiburon), TButton can now take an image, do image padding and
> reposition the image. Only way for that to happen on all platforms, is
> to be a custom drawn button!!!  So basically TBitBtn can fall away, or
>  be renamed to TButton.  The old TBitBtn can then become an alias to
> TButton for backwards compatibility.

So Delphi broke compatebility itself ?

Let's wait till the real version is released and stop speculating.

Marc




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