Style problems in Open/Save dialogs

David Wilbourn

My apologies in advance if this is a Windows/Delphi/Styles problem rather than an LMD one! It can be difficult to determine where the fault lies in these cases.

I have noticed that in the LMDFileOpenDialog and LMDFileSaveDialog, changing the style causes some problems with the Back/Forward/Up arrows in the top-left corner. (see attachment BackForwardUpButtons.jpg)

There is also a problem with the LMDFileOpenDialog Open button. When the style is plain Windows, this can show as a dropdown (giving access to "Show Previous versions"). However when a different style is selected, the Open button turns into a radio button. (see attachment OpenButton.jpg)

David Wilbourn

Sorry, I meant 'Themes' not 'Styles'

Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

This is Delphi dialogs styling, and it seems to be implemented bugfully. So, as a woraround to turn its offf please use the following code:

TStyleManager.SystemHooks := TStyleManager.SystemHooks - [shDialogs];

David Wilbourn

Hi Eugene,

Thanks for the suggestion however after a lot of searching I have found a better method:

https://github.com/RRUZ/vcl-styles-utils

is a set of utilities that fixes these problems (among many others). 

See http://delphiprogrammingdiary.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-apply-vcl-style-to-delphi-common.html for some user-freindly info on this fix.