Your experience with custom styles - do they work well?

[Alex7691 7]

On 12/23/2023 at 9:04 PM, David Heffernan said:

Ha ha ha. I think we all know the answer to this. 

 

They can't even do menus properly. Even for the standard  windows theme the menus are custom drawn and the Emba code gets it wrong in various mixed dpi scenarios. 

 

When I switched to Delphi 11.3 I'd hoped to avoid having to patch the VCL to suppress its custom drawn menus. Alas that hope was doomed. 

Seems that you are referring to the TMainMenu control. We don't use it in our application. We used the TActionMainMenuBar which renders the menu. Not sure how much code they share and if the same problem affects both, but IIRC, the menu rendered correctly on high DPI monitors and in mixed setups.

 

One thing that's really messed up in TActionMainMenuBar is the customization at runtime via TCustomizeDlg, and it happens all the time regardless of your monitor DPI. I've reported the issue to EMB but no fix so far: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-31714

 

Other than that we haven't found any major issues so far.