[Lazarus] Noobie - Interface problem in Windows

[David Taylor]

On 16/11/2013 23:22, Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a bit of a noobie to Lazarus and I have been designing an app with
> Lazarus running under Linux. It all seemed to be going well. Tonight I
> booted into Windows and decided to quickly compile the app to see what
> it looked like and there is a problem with a blue background that I
> don't get compiling under Linux.
>
> See these screenshots as an example:
>
> Running under Windows 7, Lazarus 1.0.12 fpc 2.6.2
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3940444/laz_windows%201.0.12%20fpc%202.6.2.png
>
>
> Running under Linux (LMDE), Lazarus 1.0.10 fpc 2.6.2 gtk
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3940444/laz_linux%201.0.10%20fpc%202.6.2.png
>
>
> Running under Linux (LMDE), Lazarus 1.3 svn fpc 2.6.2 Qt
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3940444/laz_linux%201.3%20fpc%202.6.2.png
>
>
> The tabs are a TTabControl rather than a TPageControl. My thinking
> behind using a TabControl was that only minor UI changes will be
> required when the tab changes and I could do this with code. If I used a
> PageControl I would have had to make copies of all the UI items for each
> page, which would mean a lot of time, effort and probably a bigger binary.
>
> Not sure why I am getting a blue background only in Windows, when it
> looks fine in Linux? All the UI elements below the TabControl appear to
> be it's children in the object inspector. Should I have placed a panel
> before placing the other UI elements?
>
> I very much appreciate any help or guidance you can offer me.
>
> Thanks & best regards,
>
> Martin
Martin,

FWIW, I /prefer/ the blue background!  It may be worth checking on 
Windows themes support (I'm new to Lazarus as well).

By the way, it's MSNs, and not MSN's.

Cheers
-- 
David
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