Change background color of TLMDPropertyInspector

Rascular Technology

I want to change the 'unused background' color of a TLMDPropertyInspector, but I can't find a property that works. I can change all other colors, but NOT the white section at the bottom. Any ideas?

balabuev

Hi,

Currently there no way to change this color. This is due to the fact that property inspector descends from TCustomGrid, and this area is filled inside base class code.

I'm myself looked several times at this problem, and found no way to override this behavior.

Rascular Technology

Well, there *is* a way, but it involves a minor tweak to the code ;-)

Promote TCustomGrid's 'DrawingStyle' property from 'protected' to 'public' in TLMDCustomPropsPage  or somewhere similar, and then set it to gdsClassic

The 'Color' property now affects the background color of the entire control, rather than just the active area. Surprisingly, nothing else seemed to change. I was hoping to be able to set a different background for the inactive vs. active areas, but maybe some custom cell drawing code could do that?

Rascular Technology

Here's an alternative to switching DrawingStyle, which does what I require: Publish a new TColor property called BaseColor, and in the "DrawCell" method of TLMDCustomPropsPage, add

  FInternalColor := BaseColor;

balabuev

Hi,

Thanks for your reports, I'll look what can be done.