TCheckBox.Color not working... again?
lazarus / 7-LCL

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idog · 2009-11-18 01:40

Hi,

I put a simple TCheckBox on a form and set its Color to whatever from
the object inspector - and nothing happens, neither at design time nor
at run time. Also, nothing happens if I change it from inside the
code. ParentColor is false.

I see there's a closed bug report about this (#13458) on the same
widgetset and for an earlier version, so maybe I'm just missing
something?

Version 0.9.29-22300/2.2.4, Vista 32-bit.

Thanks.

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Blaazen · 2009-11-18 02:05

Hi,

it works normally on Qt widgetset Kubuntu 9.10 64bit.
Laz. 0.9.29 - svn 22663, fpc 2.5.1

B.

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Blaazen · 2009-11-18 09:27

Hi again,

just tried on 32bit Vista and does not work.
Check box color and check box font color cannot be changed.
The same for Tbutton, Tradioitem.
Color can be changed on TPanel, font color on TBitBtn.
But it is older lazarus, i have here 22279 (0.9.28) and fpc 2.2.4.

B.

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Vincent Snijders · 2009-11-18 09:35

I have Lazarus 0.9.29 and I have can create a checkbox with red
background and yellow characters on windows xp.

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tk · 2009-11-18 09:36

I remember that these attributes didn't work in Delphi if you have
themes enabled.

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idog · 2009-11-18 12:04

tk - Do you mean Vista themes, from the OS iteself? Or something
within Lazarus?

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Vincent Snijders · 2009-11-18 13:01

With themes enabled, the background color can be changed, but not the
font color.

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Blaazen · 2009-11-18 14:14

Vista - when changed theme to classic setting, both checkbox and
radioitem work well (background and font) but TButton has still
"system" look.
B.

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Vincent Snijders · 2009-11-18 14:20

And that is not fixable, see the restrictions tab in the object
inspector of TButton.Color and known issues[/ur].

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Blaazen · 2009-11-18 14:54

Yes, TButton.Color and TBitBTn.Color, but here of some reason I cannot
change TButton.Font.Color, which is not restricted (in Windows).
TBitbtn.Font.Color works well.

So is solution for idog ownerdraw?

B.

Edit: I see it is probably not possible here.

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idog · 2009-11-18 16:06

In my particular case, this issue is not important enough to start
OwnerDrawing. I'll just put the checkbox on a colored panel or
something. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a bug.

Thanks, all.