I do not want to show the dots in a TabControl interface, when I change the properties of TabControl, TabPosition: Dots ... I just want to handle it with gestures.
Set the TabPosition property to None.
It can seem misleading because the dots still show up in design mode to simplify moving from page to page when designing, but they will not show when running.
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I have a TabControl with many tabs. During the design time there is a control artifact like the one the image below where I can scroll the tabs that are not visible, since there is no available space to show them all.
However at runtime it shows up like this:
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The only way to select the other non visible tabs is using the keyboard arrows when focusing on any of the visible tabs.
The user will not know that there are more hidden tabs with this problem.
The FullSize parameter does not change anything on runtime. Clipchildren, ClipParent, etc does not cause any change.
we're using smartGWT for our web application. An the main page is a tabset that shows different tabs. What I want to do is do a button to the tab set with the setTabBarControls method which then is alligned to the left instead to the right. So it would somewhat look like the current Firefox version.
Is there a possibility to change the allignment of the TabBarControls? I couldn't find any.
If you want to create something like the Firefox corner button, just use TabSet.addChild(). That will place the button at the upper left, and you can use setLeft/setTop to move it elsewhere. If you want the control to appear to the left of the tabs, set a layoutStartMargin on the TabBar to leave space for it.
I have positioned a nested form on the applications main form along with another control and a TSplitter, as stated in my previous question. If you look at that question, the part labelled "design forms here" needs scrollbars.
No matter whether I set scroll bars programatically to be visible or use the AutoScroll property - I never see the scroll bars !! Grrrr!! I was wondering if something else that I am doing could be removing the scroll bars. For instance BorderStyle := bsNone;
It's not that - when I comment it out I still don't see scrollbars, but that has got me thinking .... any ideas?
Is there a reason to use a nested Form on the right side? I tried it with a TScrollBox instead (alclient) and the scrollbars appear as expected...
I add a toolbar with some standard Delphi components to my application. Unfortunately, the stupid arrow is first glyph (does anyone even know what it is for?)
I would like to destroy it totally, or, at least, set itcs icon to blank, so that it blends in with the toolbar.
How can I do this?
I need some code which can be executed twice without causing an exception. Thanks
TToolButton gets its image from combining its ImageIndex property with the enclosing toolbar's Images property, which refers to a TImageList. To make a toolbar button have no image, assign ImageIndex := -1.
To remove the glyph from a TSpeedButton at design time, select the button, and then select the Glyph property in the Object Inspector. Press Del to clear the property. To do the same at run time, assign Button.Glyph := nil.
If you have a pre-made toolbar, such as TMediaPlayer or TDBNavigator, then you can't customize the buttons. They always show the arrow glyphs that are hard-coded in the control. You can choose to hide or show certain buttons, though. If you placed the control just to get a row of buttons and have no intention of using them to play media or navigate a database, then don't use that control. Just place a TPanel and put standalone buttons on it.
We have developed a software. In this software we are show and hiding a few controls on various input screens depending on various situations.
When we hid a control what happens is that the space occupied by that control is left as it is and layout looks very bad at times esp. in screens that have larger numbers of controls. Our client does not like this and has asked us to do something about this.
My question:
Is there some way by which we can create Fluid Layouts so that when a control is hidden the rest of the controls automatically adjusts themselves to fill the empty space left by the control hidden and when the control is show they should automatically make way for the control and adjust themselves accordingly.
I know we can achieve this by coding but that will require a lot of code in each screen for adjusting the layout. I am looking something which will reduce coding in each screen as there are 80+ screens.
Please suggest some way which is less error pron and can get rid of unnecessary coding in each input screen.
I think your best option is to use a component that handles the layout of your vcl controls on your form in runtime (depending on the conditions that you define). I recommend you try the Devexpress ExpressLayout Control
you can find two great demo videos here
ExpressLayout Control - How to Customize Layout Views
ExpressLayout Control - Create and Customize a Simple Layout
(source: devexpress.com)
You can check these features
Auto-Management - Control groups and individual control elements are automatically managed by the Layout Control. You never worry about pixel-by-pixel positioning.
Form auto-sizing - The form can be automatically resized to fit its contents best.
Bye.
Now, I'm not sure how complex layout you have, but I guess you can use TFlowPanel and/or TGridPanel for this. Flowpanel has a nice handling of components that change visiblity. I'm not sure how well gridpanel handles the same...
What kind of controls are you dynamically hiding, and what do you mean with auto fill space?
I do not know if it is as this simple: place controls on panels, and use align alTop/alClient/alBottom. When you hide a panel, all other panels will move automatically up.
One problem though: if you want to show a panel again, the order of panels can sometimes be screwed up... Can be fixed by manually setting .Top property, or "hide" by setting .Height := 1;
What I would do with a complex layout is actually split it up into several tabs. This has two advantages. It simplifies the form layout, and allows you to show and hide whole tabs depending on choices made in other tabs.
Raize Components have a TRzFlowPanel UI component. Does exactly what you're after.
Use TRzFlowPanel to put an empty flow panel on a form. The major difference between a traditional panel and a flow panel is the way in which controls are placed. With a traditional panel, you place a control (such as a button) in a specific location. You can freely move that control to any location within the panel using the mouse. In a flow panel, each control is placed in a specific location, regardless of where you place it with the mouse. The automatic location is controlled by the FlowStyle property. For example, using the default FlowStyle property of LeftRightTopBottom, the first control you add to the flow panel snaps to the top left corner. The second control that you add snaps next to the first control, and so on.