DelphiStyles.com sells custom VCL and FireMonkey Styles. They are offering a free custom VCL Windows Style for RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo customers through the GetIt Package Manager (Tools > GetIt Package Manager).
After downloading the style, you can find it under C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\CatalogRepository\AquaLightSlate2-1.0
Select the .vsf file and copy it into C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\Styles
To apply the style to your VCL ...
During this week's CodeRage event, I gave a lightning talk on using the Bitmap Style Designer to create a custom style for TSwitch. This blog post summarizes the steps, tips and tricks shown during my CodeRage session. It also includes the style graphics shown during the session and the session replay link.
The integrated Style Designer in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin has undergone several changes and improvements, including:
Clipboard, keyboard and multi-selection support on the Structure view
Preview panel
Zooming support
I recently received a question from a customer on how to best customize a style for a specific component, and I thought I'd cover the steps in a blog post. In this tutorial, we are going to change the background color of TGroupBox.
Step 1: Create a new FireMonkey Mult...
During my session at CodeRage, I briefly talked about how to load custom styles at runtime. I wanted to elaborate on this topic and provide some detailed steps.
In this example, we are creating a mobile app for iOS and Android that uses the 'Jet' Premium Style. I added both styles via the resources dialog in the IDE and used the TStyleManager.LoadFromResource method to load either style at runtime.
When loading custom styles at runtime using the steps below, you don't see the style at desi...