[Lazarus] TButton must now become a custom draw component

[Bogusław Brandys]

Graeme Geldenhuys pisze:
> 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.
> 
> And seeing that TButton must now be custom drawn, we can finally get
> the long last feature..... Changing the button background color (my
> original gripe) like CLX. :)
> 
> At this rate (although slow), all VCL components will one day be
> custom draw, which basically means VCL will be a fpGUI clone.  ;-)
> 
> If anybody else wants to what the video, here is the direct link:
>  http://video.codegear.com/Tiburon/WhatsNewInTheVCL_English/WhatsNewInTheVCL.flv
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
> 
> 
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That would require a lot of improvement in repainting controls because 
such LCL I suppose would be deadly slow with all buttons custom drawn.
Just my two cents little opinion...



Regards
Boguslaw