UWP-like Applications with custom design or with VCL Styles

[Almediadev Support 81]

Fellow Delphi Developers!

 

StyleControls VCL 4.18 just released!

 

http://www.almdev.com

 

In this version we continue to improve our solution to create UWP-like applications.
Also we updated UWP MultiView demo template with VCL Styles and with custom adjustment (now you can see styled second UWP form and styled UWP form for messages).
These demos show that you can create styled application, in which all forms will have system DWM shadow, with custom design or with VCL Styles!
 

[Der schöne Günther 316]

Do you have plans for incorporating the "real" thing as this would be possible with "XAML Islands" [1] [2] or will you stick with mimicking?

 

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/xaml-platform/xaml-host-controls#uwp-xaml-hosting-api

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-appsample-Xaml-Hosting

 

[Almediadev Support 81]

11 hours ago, Der schöne Günther said:

Do you have plans for incorporating the "real" thing as this would be possible with "XAML Islands" [1] [2] or will you stick with mimicking?

 

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/xaml-platform/xaml-host-controls#uwp-xaml-hosting-api

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-appsample-Xaml-Hosting

 

We'll try to implement some things from Fluent API in the future, but it's not easy with VCL core. 

At this moment goal is creating modern VCL applications.

Solution is flexible, works on High-DPI systems with VCL Styles or with custom adjustment. 

With StyleControls you can create nice UI core and use any other third-party VCL controls.