Description

StyleControls is a stable, powerful package (more than 100 components), which uses Classic drawing, system Themes, GDI+ and VCL Styles. This package contains the unique solutions to extend standard VCL controls and also has many unique, advanced controls to create modern applications (UWP design) with Fluent UI Blur Background. Also with this package you can really improve applying and using of VCL Styles in your application.

Benefits of VCL Styles:

Native technology, which based on Themes API
Professional collection of styles from Embarcadero
Professional collection of styles from DelphiStyles
No needs of style-adapter for standard controls
Most of third-party popular controls already have support of VCL Styles
Ability to create application with different controls from different vendors in one style
Ability to create VCL Style as one of the options, which can be disabled

Benefits of StyleControls VCL:

Unique solution to create UWP-like applications (you can fully customize form, enable DWM shadow with hit test for it (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11))
UWP-like form works the same with System Themes or with VCL Styles
Windows 10, 11 Fluent UI support with Acrylic Blur Background (you can adjust it and with VCL Styles - see screenshots)
Excellent support of system Themes and VCL Styles
Improves VCL Styles on Forms, Menus and Common Dialogs (and for High-DPI systems)
All controls work fine, faster, without any flickers, have the same functionality with system Themes or with VCL Styles
All controls have support of High-DPI systems with any DPI (no limitations and with VCL Styles)
Complex solution to scale imgs in controls on High-DPI systems (icons, backgrounds and many more)
A lot of advanced controls to create really modern application
A lot of controls has multi-theme (style) adjustments (for example, one button can looks and works as push button, tool button, spin button and many more)
Additional collection of controls, which use GDI+ (buttons with a lot of shapes type and vector glyphs, edits, memos with transparency, listboxes, comboboxes, meters, sliders, switches and many more)
special adapter unit to use VCL Styles with DevExpress controls
support of "PerMonitorV2" DPI Awareness option (available in 10.3 Rio) for all controls (they use per monitor system metrics and theme data)
StyleControls VCL is intended for use with:

Delphi XE3 - 12 Athens (32-bit + 64-bit)
C++Builder XE3 - 12 Athens (32-bit + 64-bit)

Features

support of classic drawing, system Themes and VCL styles in all elements and in all controls
set of controls to create Windows 10, 11 Modern UI Applications (UWP / Fluent UI design)
Windows 10, 11 Fluent UI Acrylic Blur Background support
Windows 10, 11 Fluent UI Light Effect on buttons with pressed animation
collection of controls (tabcontrol, pagecontrol, memo, editors, listbox, combobox, rounded meters, dials, h/v meters, sliders, buttons with different shapes, vectror glyphs (100+ kinds), switch and many more), which based on GDI+ vector graphic
(controls can automatically use colors from styles or system, custom colors for different elements)
complex solution, which helps you to create applications with High-DPI support (see special High-DPI demos)
support of new High-DPI VCL styles (new for RAD Studio 10.4)
support of per-control styling (new for RAD Studio 10.4)
support of VCL Styles in designer (new for RAD Studio 11)
special component to add buttons, tabs in NC area of the styled form and improve behavior of the form
special component and code to improve behavior of the styled menus + add alphablend transparency, wallpapers for the styled menus (styled menus works since XE2)
special code to improve scaling and High-DPI support for system common dialogs with VCL Styles
High-DPI (scaling) support for controls, forms, messages, menus to any scale factor (100%, 125%, 150%, 175% - 250% and more ("Enable High-DPI" option available sinse 10 Seattle))
special virtual image list component, which can be HQ scaled to any size with any scale factor
auto adjust style elements to scale controls and styled form border
custom imgs support for custom style in many controls (you can define custom imgs collection, which based from PNG files and use it in controls)
many options in controls to adjust diffrent style kinds of controls (combination of themes, styles and custom graphic)
advanced controls with transparency, different types of borders, wallpapers, including wallpapers with alpha-channel
glow and animation effects on controls: system animation for buttons, glow (shadow) effect for labels, text on controls, glow selections and more
advanced label with glow effects
advanced html label control
advanced listboxes, comboboxes, a lot of editors with different types, memo with transparency, wallpapers and a lot of additional properties
advanced buttons, checkbox, radiobutton with many style kinds and with a lot of functionality
advanced panel, groupbox, tab controls with a lot of style kinds and a lot of parameters for adjusting
treeview, listview components, which fully support Themes and VCL Styles + additional features for adjusting
cool office controls to show galleries of icons, grid views and more
shell controls with thumbnails support
grids with transparency, wallpapers, transparent editors and more features
ability to create custom dropdown (popup) form and link it to control
DB controls
different pager controls with a lot of advanced features
touch scrolling support in controls
special adapting unit (available for registered version) to support VCL Styles in DevExpress controls (QuantumGrid, Scheduler and more (v. 16+ are supported))
really easy to use and adjusting controls for standard themes and VCL Styles
64-bit support
support of SmartEffects VCL (cool animation and transition effects in your applications)
support of ImageKit VCL (smooth animations and cool 3D animation and transition effects in your applications)
many more...

Version 5.80

* added: tabs separator for tab / page controls (see ShowTabSeparator and TabOptions properties)
* added: TabsLineMode for TscAdvancedTabControl and TscGPTabControl controls
(set it True to have tabs area as client area, in which you can add controls from left and right with align property and defined TabsLeftOffset and
TabsRightOffset properties).
* improved: TscAdvancedListBox, TscAdvancedComboBox, TscGPListBox, TscGPComboBox controls
* improved: VCL Styles support in some controls
* improved: styled menus behavior
* added: some optimizations and improvements in code

Additional Information