Delphi Firemonkey Styles

How to change the default FireMonkey style in Delphi XE2. Ask Question 5. VCL Styles and Firemonkey Styles are fundamentally different. 1.What is a FireMonkey Style Template? FM Style Template is a template for the 'Bitmap Style Designer' tool (Tools > Bitmap Style Designer). For more information about the Bitmap Style Designer please read the documentation here.

There are a number of ways to store and access styles. In this section I shall look at each in turn, and in order of preference. System Styles System styles are those designed to look like a given operating system.

They are stored as resources in your final application and are not (easily) available for browsing and editing. Unless they are overridden then the appropriate style for the current platform will be selected from the list below. Resource Name Platform win7style Windows 7 win8style Windows 8 lionstyle OS X lion2xstyle OS X with retina display ipadstyle iPad prior to iOS7 iphonestyle iPhone other than version 6 (XE4) or prior to iOS7 iphonestyle_6 iPhone 6 (XE4 only) iphonepadstyle_Modern iOS7 androidstyle Android (You can see the names of the system styles for the current platform in the source of GetSystemStyle in the unit FMX.Controls. The system style can be accessed via the SystemStyle or SystemStyleHiRes properties of which return the style appropriate for the platform. These properties are read only and their value is determined by FireMonkey. ActiveStyle The currently active style is stored in another pair of properties of, ActiveStyle and ActiveStyleHiRes. By default these will be the same as the SystemStyle/SystemStyleHiRes properties but they can be modified by calling TStyleManager.SetStyleFromFile or TStyleManager.SetStyleFromFileHiRes and passing in the name of a style file.

Alternatively, you can use one of the LoadXXXX methods of TStyleManager and assign the result to ActiveStyle or ActiveStyleHiRes. Setting the active style will set the style for the entire application (unless you use one of the methods below to override it for a specific form or forms). This is the preferred method to use to modify the look of an entire application. These methods should be called from your project (dpr) file before Application.Initialize is called, or from the initialization section of a unit. If called later, e.g from a forms OnCreate event handler, you may find that the app is initialized with the default style and then updated with your new style.

You can view the project file with the Project/View Source menu item in Delphi. Here is a sample loading a custom style.

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Go Up to FireMonkey controls are arrangements of a tree composed of subcontrols, primitive shapes and brushes, decorated with effects. These compositions are defined as styles, stored in a style book.

The individual elements of a style are internally called resources; because that term has several other meanings, the term style-resource is used for clarity. Styles provide a great deal of customization without subclassing.

On a 32-bit Windows development system, the FireMonkey styles that are provided with the product are located in: C: Program Files Embarcadero Appmethod n.n Redist styles Fmx On a 64-bit Windows development system, the FireMonkey styles are located in: C: Program Files (x86) Embarcadero Appmethod n.n Redist styles Fmx. Contents • • • • • • • • Default Styles In FireMonkey, each control class has a default style, hard-coded per platform. To see the style definitions in the: • For a FireMonkey desktop application: • Drop a control on a form in the Form Designer. • Right-click the control and choose Edit Default Style. • For a FireMonkey mobile app: • Drop a on the form in the Form Designer. • Double-click the stylebook.

This creates a copy of the internal hard-coded style. For example, the default style of is defined simply as: • panelstyle: TRectangle The name of the style-resource that defines the style is 'panelstyle'. It refers to a. The appearance of this rectangle can be changed in the Style Designer, and then every TPanel on the form will have that appearanace by default. But there is no rule that a TPanel must be represented by a TRectangle.

A or would work. Even simple controls can be a complex composition.

Object TBrushObject StyleName = 'somebrush' end Nested Styles Styles may refer to other styled components. As always, styles are found by their top-level names in the TStyleBook. For example, to use the same gradient: • In the FireMonkey Style Designer, save the existing styles in a.style file. • Edit the file with a text editor to create a TBrushObject. Use an appropriate StyleName. • Load the.style file.

• Select the newly defined style so that it appears in the Object Inspector. • Open the Brush property: • Edit the Gradient property with the (choose Edit from the property value's drop-down menu) • Set the Kind property to bkGradient • For each component using the gradient, for example, with a TRectangle's Fill property: • Set the Kind property to bkResource • Open the Resource property (a TBrushResource) and set the StyleLookup to the name of the gradient in Step 2. Style-Resource Search Sequence To find its style, a control goes through the following approximate sequence, stopping at the first match: • If the form's StyleBook property is set, that TStyleBook is searched using two names: • The control's StyleLookup property, if set. • A default name constructed from the control's class name: • Drop the first letter (presumed to be the 'T' prefix of the standard class naming scheme).