Using 2013 style disrupts other styles

VCL TMS VCL UI Pack
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The 2013 styles are causing trouble with form border and title bar when switching back to non-2013 styles, the poly pager is not picking up all 2010/2013 styles correctly. To test do the following:
  • From the wizard create a new "TMS Office 2010 ribbon application".
  • Add an AdvAppStyler and an AdvFormStyler to the main form.
  • Connect the form styler to the app styler.
  • For both stylers set AutoThemeAdapt to "true".
  • Add an AdvPolyStyler to the custom area of the form, add a page to the pager.
  • In the AdvToolBar add 4 buttons with caption "2003", "2007", "2010" and "2013".
  • For the 4 buttons' "OnClick" events set the following code, one line per button:
    • (2003 button)  AdvFormStyler1.Style := tsOffice2003Olive;
    • (2007 button)  AdvFormStyler1.Style := tsOffice2007Obsidian;
    • (2010 button)  AdvFormStyler1.Style := tsOffice2010Blue;
    • (2013 button)  AdvFormStyler1.Style := tsOffice2013LightGray;
Run the application... when clicking the 2003 and 2007 buttons forth and back, the application nicely changes style. When clicking the 2010 button, all but a part of the poly pager changes correctly. When clicking the 2013 button the pager is not updated properly. After the 2013 style was applied, going back to a pre-2013 style introduces an (inactive!) form border and title bar.

Also I am not able to fully apply styles to dialog forms, the form border and title bar are always shown and are default blue. Is there an option I am missing? Thanks for your help!

Note: using the latest component versions under Delphi XE.
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The poly pager issue seems a straight forward one. This is the only component I use that has its own "Styles" pop menu entry when working in "Design", and this only has a subset of known styles, all 2010+2013+Win8... are missing. The other components use a "Style" property.

Looking at the AdvPolyPager source, the procedure "TAdvPolyPage.SetComponentStyle" is hardwired and does not know those styles either, no surprise this is not applying them.
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Dear Mr. Böge, 


We have investigated this here and have added the remaining styles. The next version will address this.

Kind Regards, 
Pieter


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Will this cover the poly pager and also the strange behavior of the 2013 styles in the application form borders? The later is more critical to me ;-) That I was not yet able to track down further. Thanks for the quick answer, and thanks in advance for the fix! Best regards, Matthias

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The Office 2003 and Office 2010/2013 ribbons are quite different, most important is that these use an entirely different application menu. Therefore, switching between these styles at runtime doesn't make much sense. I retested the Office 2010 demo here to switch between Office 2010 & Office 2013 style and couldn't see a problem.