Recently, I ran into the problem of grouping components visually. I wasn't satisfied with panels and groupboxes so I searched for an alternative. After some Googling, I decided to write a simple control by myself.
"Good ol' Delphi" provided a nifty component called TBevel for visually grouping controls. It's not a container and acts only like a "spacer".
Controls like this are often used to divide buttons at the bottom of a form from the others above. Take a look at the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons in the screen shot. They are visually grouped together and divided from the rest.
Provided are four additional properties:
BevelStyle |
Possible values: public enum BevelStyle
{
Lowered,
Raised
}
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BevelType |
Possible values: public enum BevelType
{
Box,
Frame,
TopLine,
BottomLine,
LeftLine,
RightLine,
Spacer
}
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HighlightColor |
Possible values: any Color |
ShadowColor |
Possible values: any Color |
Well, there are none... It's just a simple graphical control. Nothing special - but definitely a "nice to have".
There is only one thing I could mention here: The value BevelType.Spacer displays a dotted rect around the control only at designtime.
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