[surfer007]

How can i set the button state manually? For example set button to normal state or to illuminated state (like mouse over). See attached pictures of the two states. I want to do a keypad, the user can select out of 9 buttons, and the selected button shall become illuminated and show it is the selected one. I could go with pure graphics, but using skins for this would be cool.

[CheshireCat]

Hello and welcome to the forum,

you can set the Default property to true for specific buttons 🙂

[surfer007]

Thank you very much for the fast and perfect tip 🙂

Is it possible to manually control the outer glow of the button, too?

[CheshireCat]

My first idea was to use a timer, but maybe someone has a better solution 🙂

I use the functions Hide- and ShowGlow from the acGlow unit. You can set the time interval to a value that you need.

Code:

uses Windows, sCommonData, acGlow;

procedure TForm2.sButton1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
sButton1.Default := not sButton1.Default;
end;

procedure TForm2.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
var
skd : TsCommonData;
R, RBox : TRect;
DC : hdc;
begin
skd := sButton1.SkinData;

if (sButton1.Default) then
begin
if skd.GlowID <> -1 then HideGlow(skd.GlowID);
if GetWindowRect(TWinControl(skd.FOwnerControl).Handle, R) then
begin
DC := GetWindowDC(TWinControl(skd.FOwnerControl).Handle);
if GetClipBox(DC, RBox) = 0 then Exit;
ReleaseDC(TWinControl(skd.FOwnerControl).Handle, DC);
skd.GlowID := ShowGlow(R, RBox, skd.SkinSection, 'GLOW', skd.SkinManager.gd[skd.SkinIndex].GlowMargin,
MaxByte, sButton1.Handle, skd);
end;
end else
begin
if (skd.GlowID <> -1) and not (skd.FMouseAbove) then
begin
HideGlow(skd.GlowID);
skd.GlowID := -1;
end;
end;
end;

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