Inconsistant color
lazarus / 10-Designer

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vgoudreault · 2010-05-14 20:51

I have a problem with color on the Lazarus toolkit. I created several
TGroupBox sharing the display, each being color coded, and on my old
computer all is fine (except for the TButton -- those always appear
gray, no matter which color I assign to them).

But once I created a executable -- which looks OK on my old machine
save for the lack of color for the buttons -- and port that executable
to my other PC, then all the backgrounds are white. The only hint of
color left are the immediate background of the captions, like if the
captions could take their background color from the TGroupBox, but the
TGroupBox themselves cannot. An attempt at editing the source on the
second machine shows that it understands and can change the color, but
refuses to display them.

Any idea what could be wrong here, and especially how to fix it? Those
are both PC running Windows XP, by the way.


Vincent G

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vgoudreault · 2010-05-14 22:01

I found a way to salvage the program: fitting a static text field as
large as the combobox with a blank text but with the right background,
but it has a few down sides:
1- the combobox title is now covered and would require a new static
text to serve as the caption (unless the static text destined to make
the color can be positioned adequately)
2- I have no idea how to put that new static text field (destined to
provide a uniform background color) *behind* the controls that were
part of the combo box. Can anyone point me in the right direction as
to how to re-order various widgets to determine which one is on top of
another? If I cannot reorder them, I would have to re-create all the
components so that they are on top of the new background, and with the
numbers I have, that would be uncomfortably long.
Is there a resource that presents the ordering and priority of
components, that can be edited?



Vincent