In Windows 10, when I execute
MessageDlg('Hello', mtInformation, [mbOK], 0);
I can notice the cursor switch to hour glass in a flash while. I understand this is due the a flag UseLatestCommonDialogs to control the runtime using TTaskDialog. Is that possible to disable the hour glass cursor flashing by not touching UseLatestCommonDialogs?
Maybe you can use the ShowCursor(False/True) function. This function is tied to Winapi.Windows and controls the cursor.
I assume you should walk through this example about hiding or changing the mouse cursor system-wide: https://flixengineering.com/archives/484
On Phonegap application, is there any way to prevent page scrolling when a text-input is focused and the soft keyboard shows?
In case of no way, Is there any way to scroll the page to the position of text input instead of 'bring' the text input onto center of screen?
in phonegap 2.6 there is a new option to prevent scrolling by resizing the webview. take a look at the documentation and find the KeyboardShrinksView option.
cheers
I've used this javascript code with some success. It overrides the window.scrollTo function and cancels it out...
window.oldScrollTo = window.scrollTo;
window.scrollTo = function (x, y) {
console.log("window.scrollTo");
return;
};
I've recently started checking out XNA. All is going well and I've even got a working sample started. One thing that's been bugging me is that whenever I place my mouse over the game window it disappears. I don't know if this is the default behavior but I would like to change this so that I can see my mouse. Any and all advice is appreciated.
Simply set IsMouseVisible to true in your main game class(preferably in your Initialize method or Game class constructor) :
IsMouseVisible = true;
I built a custom control, and with theme support on it looks very strange. Is there any way to make it so that it will always draw with themes off, even if the application is built with theme support on?
EDIT: I found a way to turn theming off and it didn't help much. The problem is that it's a special button descended from TBitBtn, and whenever the button is selected, it tries to draw a border around it with a dotted line and that gets in the way. How can I turn that off?
You can try to copy the implementation of TBitBtn.DrawItem and tweak it to your needs. A search for IsFocused inside the code should give you a guide.
To call your patched code you also have to link in the CNDrawItem method by implementing a similar message handler.
u can disable the theme for a component using the SetWindowTheme function found in UxTheme.pas
this will disable the theme for a button and a progressbar
...
SetWindowTheme(Button.Handle, ' ', ' ');
SetWindowTheme(ProgressBar.Handle, ' ', ' ');
...
I've got an app that runs a long set of operations, and I'm trying to use a TProgressBar to keep track of what's going on. I set a number of steps, and call .StepIt to increment the progress bar.
Problem is, it doesn't keep up very well. Instead of jumping directly to the correct position, it seems to like to slide gradually up to it. That's all well and good if it's eye candy you're after, but when I'm trying to get an accurate representation of my routine's progress, this makes it appear to be constantly lagging behind the true status. How can I turn that "feature" off?
I only notice this happening under Windows Vista. Not sure if it's also going on on XP or not, because when I test it on XP, the process goes a lot faster and it's over too quickly. :P But this may or may not be Vista-specific. Either way, it's driving me nuts. Does anyone know how to fix it?
I have a quick but partial and inelegant solution, if you don't mind having the progressbar yellow instead of green:
ProgressBar1.SmoothReverse := True;
ProgressBar1.State := pbsPaused; // for yellow or pbsError for red
Or if you don't mind loosing the vista/theme look and go back to a flat blue one:
UxTheme.SetWindowTheme(ProgressBar1.Handle, ' ', ' ');
The real "problem" according to Microsoft is that you try to "pervert" a ProgressBar into a Meter which they claim it is not.
You could also try to draw it yourself ;-)
Same problem on Windows7 !!
But the answer was already in one of the older posts:
If tou make the progressbar step backwards there will NO delay !!!
So I implemented this..... (and get instant updates)
if(progress < ProgressBar.Max)
then
begin
ProgressBar.Position := progress+1;
ProgressBar.Position := progress; //This will set Progress backwards and give an instant update....
end
else
begin //cannot set position beyond max...
ProgressBar.Max := progress + 1;
ProgressBar.Position := progress + 1;
ProgressBar.Max := progress; //This will also set Progress backwards also so instant update........
end;
I ran into exactly the same problem a while ago. After searching Google for a long time, I found that it is a Vista-specific problem. It seems to boil down to this: Microsoft added fancy animations to the progress bar control in Vista (i.e., the moving 'highlight'). To make updates more smooth, they implemented some sort of 'lagging' in the repaint of the control --- and this basically screws the whole progress bar control. Rather annoying, I'd say, especially since there doesn't seem to be a decent solution.
See for more details the replies by Arvid Winkelsdorf to this Embarcadero Discussion Forum post:
It's the same for VB, C++ and C#
somehow as the problem lies in the
Vista drawing of the new animated
ProgressBars. To provide a smoother
visual feedback drawing is delayed
when moving forward. Your application
cannot be sure that 100% will be
reached at any given time.
By setting the position back to a
smaller value, the ProgressBar drawing
is forced to jump back. No delay in
getting to a position smaller than the
current. So you'll have nearly 100%
immediately. Afterwards set to the
maximum and you'll have exactly 100%.
[...]
There is a similar glitch when using
the new Vista ProgressBar Styles like
PB Paused or PB Error. If the bar is
still moving (MS part) and your app
sets the color to paused by
SendMessage (like in D2009) the
message will be ignored by the
ProgressBar.
Maybe you can try to set the position of the ProgressBar directly instead of using the StepIt procedure. I'm on XP with Delphi 7 here, so I can't test it, but looking at the code of TProgressBar it uses a different message (PBM_SETPOS instead of PBM_STEPIT). So maybe it sets the position of the progressbar without an animation.
Additionally there are several 3rd party components which provide better Progress bar implementations that still render nice on Vista. Personally, I prefer the one from Raize components which works quite well. It doesn't "lag" like the windows control does and works independent of any theming.
If you don't really want anything fancy, then you can always build one yourself using a panel and a tshape aligned left inside the panel. Resize the tshape to be a % of the panel it sets on.
I had the same problem, my solution was to switch to another control available in the VCL :
I choose to use the Range of TTrackBar to display the progression.
(with slider off and control resized to hide the range marks).
Not the same visual (particulary if themed), but it fit well my need (no lag).
Here is a simple solution:
ProgressBar.max := ProgressBar.max +1;
ProgressBar.StepBy(2);
ProgressBar.StepBy(-1);
ProgressBar.max := ProgressBar.max -1;