Looking for a certain component

[357mag 2]

I'm using a regular Label currently to store the sum of some addition, but the book I'm working out of shows the Label sunken in a little bit. It's not perfectly flat like a regular Label is. It has a real shallow depression in it. What is the name of this control?

[Anders Melander 1813]

13 minutes ago, 357mag said:

What is the name of this control?

It's not a standard control. It was a style that was popular in the nineties (where it belongs).

 

The Raize controls (now Konopka Signature VCL Controls) or the JVCL probably has a label that can paint like that.

[Remy Lebeau 1421]

2 hours ago, 357mag said:

What is the name of this control?

You can use a standard TPanel, simply adjust its BevelInner and BevelOuter properties to mimic the sunken look you want.  And, you can assign text to a TPanel like you can with a TLabel (or, just put a TLabel on the TPanel).

Edited Thursday at 09:52 PM by Remy Lebeau

[Sherlock 663]

Cosmetics aside, you should not store values in (visual) components. Store values in variables, class members or a database... not in a visual component. That is not its purpose. Try to avoid misuse of objects. For very small projects this might be OK. But overall and in real life this is not a way to go.

[dummzeuch 1515]

15 hours ago, 357mag said:

I'm using a regular Label currently to store the sum of some addition, but the book I'm working out of shows the Label sunken in a little bit. It's not perfectly flat like a regular Label is. It has a real shallow depression in it. What is the name of this control?

Maybe it's a TStaticText? That one has got Bevel-options.

Edited Friday at 11:00 AM by dummzeuch

[ToddFrankson 2]

7 hours ago, Sherlock said:

Cosmetics aside, you should not store values in (visual) components. Store values in variables, class members or a database... not in a visual component. That is not its purpose. Try to avoid misuse of objects. For very small projects this might be OK. But overall and in real life this is not a way to go.

Explain how else you display a sum to the user, without displaying the data in a control  This will be good to learn.

[Dave Novo 51]

1 hour ago, ToddFrankson said:

Explain how else you display a sum to the user, without displaying the data in a control  This will be good to learn.

This may just be a semantic issue. The OP wrote he was "storing" the sum in a label, maybe he meant display. @Anders Melander is correct, data should be stored in variables/fields etc. Of course, if you need to display to the user, some UI control is needed. I have seen too much code where some value was actually stored in a UI control, and the only way to get the current state of that value was to reference the UI control. That is bad.

[Anders Melander 1813]

52 minutes ago, Dave Novo said:

@Anders Melander is correct, data should be stored in variables/fields etc.

The style I was referring to was the visual style and I assumed that the OP meant something like this:

 

Unfortunately he is apparently too busy to respond so we can only guess.