[Lazarus] Screenshots with a header

JoshyFun joshyfun at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 13:41:29 CET 2009


Hello Lazarus-List,

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 11:03:03 AM, you wrote:

>> Controls are being moved quite sure because they are anchored ones to
>> others, maybe you must remove all anchors (to other objects) while you
>> design.
MG> Maybe Juha has not yet spotted the anchor editor?

Hmmm... maybe...

>> Autosized buttons are great for internacionalization but awful from
>> the design point of view. Also the Delphi way of placing icons just
>> side by side with text is "catastrofic" :) unless you set the same
>> button 20 times :)
MG> TBitBtn shows icons depending on platform.
MG> For your own apps your can override this with
MG> Application.ShowButtonGlyphs

I know, but anyway the results are not "pretty". Anyway but this is
not a problem, it's "my" problem :) with how icons are painted.
 
>> >> Maybe this is very platform specific but the advanced should be in the
[...]
>> upper their waists.
MG> This depends on platform.

That's what I was thinking about...

MG> About colors:
MG> Don't mix fixed colors and themed colors.
MG> You can use fixed text color on fixed background or theme color on
MG> theme background, but not fixed color on theme background.

That's a can of worms :)

-- 
Best regards,
 JoshyFun





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