[Allen]

Does AlphaControls work with DevExpress's ExpressBars™ Suite? specifically the ribbon and ribbon status bar controls?

If not – does anyone know if it is an easy fix? or know of a decent ribbon control to use instead?

Thanks!

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[Support]

Hello!

TsSkinProvider component is compatible with DevEx Ribbon if TsSkinProvider.DrawNonClientArea property = False.

(This property specially was added for compatibility with Ribbon controls).

[Allen]

'Support' wrote:

Hello!

TsSkinProvider component is compatible with DevEx Ribbon if TsSkinProvider.DrawNonClientArea property = False.

(This property specially was added for compatibility with Ribbon controls).

I am trying this with AlphaControls Lite. I am not having any luck?

[Support]

With disabled DrawNonClientAreaproperty you should receive a skinned client area and non-client area which is handled by Ribbon control.

What result do you have? Can you show a screenshot?

[Allen]

'Support' wrote:

With disabled DrawNonClientAreaproperty you should receive a skinned client area and non-client area which is handled by Ribbon control.

What result do you have? Can you show a screenshot?

I'm not sure if you want my design screenshot or running application screenshot. What do you mean by I should receive a skinned client area and non-client area? How does it get received?

I'm send both screenshots. I hope it's what you want.

[Allen]

'Support' wrote:

With disabled DrawNonClientAreaproperty you should receive a skinned client area and non-client area which is handled by Ribbon control.

What result do you have? Can you show a screenshot?

Ooops… I probably should haven't sent you the properties

[Support]

Borders and title of form (non-client area) are not drawn by DevEx Ribbon in your case, so, you can use SkinProvider with enabled DrawNonClientArea property.

And you should not have a problems with skinning of such form.

[Allen]

'Support' wrote:

Borders and title of form (non-client area) are not drawn by DevEx Ribbon in your case, so, you can use SkinProvider with enabled DrawNonClientArea property.

And you should not have a problems with skinning of such form.

The form skins fine. But I am wanting to know whether or not the TdxRibbon from DevEx will skin? It doesn't. It is keep the same colors. I am wanting compatibility with the third party DevEx if at all possible. I understand this is suppose to work.

[Allen]

'Support' wrote:

Borders and title of form (non-client area) are not drawn by DevEx Ribbon in your case, so, you can use SkinProvider with enabled DrawNonClientArea property.

And you should not have a problems with skinning of such form.

Here is my example project. Sure I am just not understanding how it works yet :wacko:

[Support]

I understand your question now, sorry for this misunderstanding.

Ribbon control can't be skinned by AlphaSkins, unfortunately.

[Allen]

'Support' wrote:

I understand your question now, sorry for this misunderstanding.

Ribbon control can't be skinned by AlphaSkins, unfortunately.

That's a bummer. Do you know what the bottleneck is? I've got the source code to it and I was wondering if maybe it couldn't be modified.

[Hamilton]

From what I can tell, the Delphi TRibbon is based on the Windows ribbon API – which doesn't expose any color properties because the control is drawn with bitmaps rather than rendered with colors/patterns. Taking a quick look at TRibbon you can see that the style can be set but there are no Color properties. If you look at the DevExpress ribbon and it *does* have colors then you're in luck and you'll be able to at least semi-skin your control using one of the methods discussed in this thread [topic='6544']here[/topic].

Regards,

Hamilton

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