DevEx VCL Components & VCL Styles??

[Ian Branch 131]

Do the DevExpress VCL components play nicely with VCL Styles?

If not, can they be made to?

 

Regards & TIA,

Ian

[gkobler 40]

DevExpress have his own Styles, i use this for my programs. I don‘t know i you use the Delphi Styles if it works with it

[Anders Melander 1836]

5 hours ago, Ian Branch said:

play nicely with VCL Styles?

can they be made to?

No and no.

[corneliusdavid 221]

I'll second both previous comments. I'm helping my team upgrade a suite of old programs that used a mix of grids and controls; the new version is DevExpress Quantum grids to the mix. We wanted to support a "dark" mode and it took a lot of research to get everything to look decent together--or at least close. We had to pick both a VCL style and a DevEx skin that (mostly) work together. They're saved and applied in completely different ways.

[KenR 29]

Using the WXI skin it is very easy to emulate Windows light and dark modes with just a few lines of code.

[Vincent Parrett 786]

Not many complex third party components work with VCL styles, either because VCL Styles are too limited/buggy, or because they already did their own thing long before VCL Styles were released. 

[Stefan Glienke 2026]

There seems to be an adapter to apply VCLStyles to DevExpress components: https://www.almdev.com/prods/stylecontrols/stylecontrols.html - I have no experience with this but at some point we will have to look into this as customers keep asking for Dark mode in our application 😎 🙈