In cxGrid,where do you modify the menu options when you right click in the Grid?
I would like to get rid of that "Right to left reading order","Show Unicode control characters","Insert Unicode control character","Open IME" and "Conversion". I dont need them at all.
How can I do that ?
This is the standard context menu of the Windows EDIT control, and not part of the Delphi code behind the control that you are using. In other words, the Delphi control that you are using is wrapping some system provided functionality.
I suppose that it would be possible to remove some items from that, but it's not easy. The EDIT control does not offer you any way to remove these built-in items. This issue has been discussed at the devExpress forum:
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q292288
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q102030
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For the life of me, i can't seem to figure out how to delete primitive or control elements from a style with in the style designer of Delphi. What am I missing? I have tried right clicking everything i could find and no option surfaces. I tried looking for a panel that isn't enabled. Can't seem to find one. As of now, I have to edit the actual text and reload it, in order to delete a style element.
Delphi XE6
Delphi 10.1 Berlin
EDIT UPDATE:
How do I get this window to appear in either IDE?
EDIT UPDATE:
Looks like there is a very small button on top left of structure pane that does the trick. I will leave question open for someone to answer with any other way. If no one can, Ill post the answer and accept it.
To delete a style element (tested on Delphi 10.1 Berlin)
Right-Click the element in the Structure view to get a popup menu.
Select Edit - Delete
Or use the button (doc with red X) immediately above the structure tree.
Thanks to John, I can confirm that in XE4 .. XE7 the popup menu doesn't have the Edit menu, so the only means left is the delete button, mentioned above.
The third image (in your edit) is not familiar. Where did you get the image? Perhaps a third party style editor. Possibly not intended to be incorporated in the IDE.
I have a lot of files to keep open, and the current single line of tabs is just difficult. I see that GExperts and CNPack does not have that (unless I missed that).
Is there any trick to achieve that, or any other suggestion that I could have more tabs visible?
The TIDEGradientTabSet (if it's still used in modern Delphi) doesn't support multiline view, so the only option for those IDE experts could be making own tab set control hiding the original one.
Alternatives are:
On the far right of the tabs is a small down arrow. Press that, and you'll see a list of all the files that are open in the editor;
Pressing Ctrl+B will open up a dialog to select a tab;
TMS has a free tool AltTab but it did not get update for while. That was exactly what was needed for Delphi IDE;
I am trying to modernize the look of our older Delphi 7 application now that we are using Delphi XE-2. I experimented with the TRibbon, and although I like it, it probably is not the correct solution since we currently use a TMainMenu and make many runtime changes to it - our users can modify the main menu. But the default Mainmenu looks old, especially compared to the image shown.
What I am trying to do is something very close to the attached image, especially with the background color, but I don't quite understand how this was done. Can anyone tell me if this example (the File/View/Insert section) uses a TMainMenu, or is it Buttons on a Toolbar ? If we require a customizable main menu, do you think the example shown is an option ?
This example image comes from DevExpress Print Sample library.
Edit : I am new here so I can't include the image. Here is the link :
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/VCL/ExPrintingSystem/gallery.xml
The second image, the green one that says "Print Preview".
You could use the TActionMainMenuBar but the simpler solution for you is to Use Vcl styles, pick a theme, modify the graphical properties of a MainMenu component and then use StyleHooks to force the style just for the MainMenu component without using it for the whole application.
I'm looking at wanting to implement a tooltip similar to the way Delphi XE does when you're debugging and you hover over an object. ie, it opens up a hint window with + signs which you can expand etc.
I'm trying to create a hint window which will show a list of items (for example) when hovering over a control (such as a button) which will let the user click on an item and I can then do something based on the item they've selected.
Are there any components out there that might do that already? Or am I better of just creating a borderless form and handle the showing/hiding myself with mouse events?
Thanks
Jason
I know there are hint components with embedded html. So you can have a kind of html treeview inside you hint!
I think it is a solution for you.
HTMLHint from TMS Software
THintBox from Cramon Utilities (freeware!)
I am a newbie to using Delphi 2010 to write Ribbon Control...
I wanted a comboBox control with 5 to 6 lines for user to choose from on my ribbon...
I've set the CommandStyle of the TActionClient to csCombobox and I had a hard time figuring out how to set the content of my comboxbox and also the control seem to be disabled once I set the CommandStyle from csButton to csCombobox.
Please help.
I've never used the Ribbon before, but i made a little test and this is wath i get, I don't know if this is wath you want:
alt text http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/6885/ribboncombo.png
Just add strings to the Items property