TAdvSmoothExpanderGroup and panel

VCL TMS VCL UI Pack
1

I'm trying to replace a design that uses TCategoryPanelGroup with a TAdvSmoothExpanderGroup and am hitting a few issues:


TAdvSmoothExpanderGroup:
   "Visible" property is not published.

TAdvSmoothExpanderPanel:
I can't get the "caption" text properly spaced at the top. It's too close to the top of the panel, and the Caption.Top property doesn't seem to move it. I can remove the padding at the bottom, but then it looks too cramped.



TAdvSmoothExpanderPanel:
Copy and paste of this component doesn't copy the Fill's Background start colour correctly when the colour is clSilver. It reverts back to light blue. (wrong "default" for property???)


2

Hi, 


The caption can be positioned with the Left and Top property if the Location property is set to plCustom

Kind Regards, 
Pieter
3

Thanks!

Yes, that moves the text as I require: But I now can't control the caption's fill height. So when I set (for example) Top=10, the text goes below the fill.


4

The height is based on the caption size, we have correct this here to take the Y property in account. The next version will address this, if you need an urgent update, you can request this through a direct email.


Kind Regards, 
Pieter
5

Thankyou. 


I can wait for the next update. But just taking the Y property into account won't allow control of the fill height independent of the font size. It could be better to have a separate Caption Height property.

A comment about the TGDIPFill "editor" in the IDE: The visual editor is helpful, but it's really annoying that I cannot also use the normal IDE property inspector to edit properties. Often I have a color as a hex value, and to use that as part of a GDIPFill is almost impossible!

Also if I want to modify the fill on multiple TAdvSmoothExpanderPanels, I have to change them one at a time, rather than selecting them all and being able to use the property inspector to adjust a property across all of them

Please could the TGDIPFill editor work like the "TFont" editor, where you can both "doubleclick" to open the visual editor, AND use the "+" button to drill down into the properties normally?



6

Hi, 


The TGDIPFill editor has copy and paste buttons to copy the fill and paste it to another component.

Kind Regards, 
Pieter
7

Well, yes. BUT that only copies the whole settings. AND you can't do that to multiple components, except one at a time. AND you can't read or set colors as hex. (AND, as mentioned above, when you use that on  a TSmoothAdvExpanderPanel whose Fill color is clSilver, the color gets pasted wrong!)

I suggest changing GDIPFillDE.pas, line 69

function TGDIPFillProperty.GetAttributes: TPropertyAttributes;
begin
   Result := [paDialog, paSubProperties, paMultiSelect];
end;




8

Hi, 


We have investigated this here and have applied your suggestion, the next version will have these properties included.

Kind Regards, 
Pieter
9

HI, I'm sure this issue did get fixed once - but it seems broken again in the current release!


function TGDIPFillProperty.GetAttributes: TPropertyAttributes;
begin
  Result := [paDialog];
10

We are unable to see this source change here. We will investigate this here and re-release this file to make sure it is available in the latest version.