[Stephane Senecal]

is it possible to have the caption above a GroupBox like in the image?

[attachment=9245:GroupBox.png]

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

Sorry, such feature is not implemented.

[Stephane Senecal]

Is it possible to make a groupbox like that?

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

It's not implemented at the moment, but I can make it soon if needed.

[Stephane Senecal]

I'm looking for ways to make GroupBox look more modern.

I think my second suggestion could make a great addition to AlphaSkins.

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

How do you think this property may be named? )

[Stephane Senecal]

Could it be possible make a setting in the skin to use wide caption on groupboxes

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

'Stephane wrote:

Could it be possible make a setting in the skin to use wide caption on groupboxes

It's much more difficult to make an option in the skin, a skin editor should be changed for that.

Otherwise, property in the component may be added in the nearest release already.

[Stephane Senecal]

Ok.

For the property name, it could be something like FullWidthCaption.

Or I noticed the property CaptionLayout. It could be extended with values like clFullWidthLeft, clFullWidthCenter, clFullWidthRight if you prefer.

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

Caption have not only full width there, but all component have another style in this case…

Quote:

Or I noticed the property CaptionLayout. It could be extended with values like clFullWidthLeft, clFullWidthCenter, clFullWidthRight

Do you mean an aligning of caption content?

[Stephane Senecal]

'Support' wrote:

Caption have not only full width there, but all component have another style in this case…

Are you thinking of making a global setting that would change all groupboxes to the new style?

If so, I think it would be nice. If not, then I understand what you mean.

'Support' wrote:

Do you mean an aligning of caption content?

I only suggested that option in case you preferred reusing an existing property.

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

I was thinking about the property like TsGroupBox.NewStyleCaption: boolean;

But, maybe global TsSkinManager.Options.NewStyleGroupBox property will be better.

Maybe others better ideas exist?

[Stephane Senecal]

The problem I see with NewStyleCaption is what will be the name of the style after NewStyle? NewNewStyle?

Maybe TsSkinManager.Options.GroupBoxCaptionStyle = (gsStandard, gsFullWidth)

What do you think?

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

Maybe TsSkinManager.Options.GroupBoxStyle = (gsStandard, gsFullWidthCaption) ? ))

Because style of GroupBox client area will be changed too, not only caption.

[Stephane Senecal]

Is it just the name you don't like?

Is the enum property ok?

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

Yes, it should be enum, you are right ))

[Stephane Senecal]

What do you think about “Card” style. It is quite used in the web domain and it loosely look similar.

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

Do you mean gsCard? It's Ok, I think.

[Stephane Senecal]

Yes, I did mean gsCard (always use a prefix) 😉

Stephane Senecal
CIS Group
Delphi programmer since 2001

[Support]

You can look it in the v14.25

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