DynamicSkinForm VCL Changelog

What's new in DynamicSkinForm VCL 14.20

Jun 4, 2020
  • Added: support of RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 14.10 (Nov 24, 2018)

  • Added: support of RAD Studio 10.3 Rio

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 14.02 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added: support of RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 14.00 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added: 64-bit support
  • Added: a lot of optimizations in code

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.51 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added: Position, GroupIndex, AllowAllUp, Down properties for buttons in NC area of the form (TspDynamicSkinForm.QuickButtons property)
  • Improved: TscExPanel control
  • Updated: Extended caption demo

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.50 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added: Windows10, Win10Modern, Win10ModernDark skins (with extended elements)
  • Improved: form behavior (TspDynamicSKinForm component)
  • Added: quick access panel in shell dialogs + improved shell dialogs and controls
  • Added: small improvements and fixes in some controls
  • Updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.35 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added: support for RAD Studio 10 Seattle
  • Added: TspSkinData.ChangeSystemColors and TspSkinData.SystemColorHooks property (now you can change system highlight (selection) and window colors to colors from skin)
  • Improved: skins ([SKINCOLORS] section values)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.30 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Updated: code for scrolling in TspSkinScrollPanel, TspSkinToolBar
  • Fixed: problem in TspCheckComboBox control with dynamiclly added items
  • Improved: TspSkinHint component
  • Fixed: '&' drawing as '_' in form's caption
  • Improved: TspSkinScrollBox control

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.22 (May 13, 2015)

  • improved: TspCheckComboBox control
  • fixed: image viewer behaviour in TspSkinOpenPictureDialog

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.21 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE8

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.20 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • improved: layered borders skin format and behaviour
  • updated: extended skins

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.10 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • added: important changes and improvements for mouse tracking in controls
  • added: optimizations in code
  • updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.07 (Feb 9, 2015)

  • added: optimizations in edit controls
  • added: TspDynamicSkinForm.GetNormalBoundsRect method
  • improved: behaviour of menus on multi-monitor systems
  • improved: TspDynamicSkinForm component

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.05 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • improved: TspSkinMainMenuBar control (behaviour with scrolling items)
  • improved: items drawing in listview controls
  • improved: shell dialogs

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.02 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • fixed: problem with loading TspSkinFileListView control when ThumbnailOptions.Enabled
  • improved: TspSkinOpenPictureDialog

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.01 (Nov 29, 2014)

  • improved: Thumbnails support in TspSkinShellListView control (optimized threads and memory usage)
  • fixed: problem with RollUp state and new TspDynamicSkinForm.MinClientHeight property

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 13.0 (Nov 23, 2014)

  • added: a lot of changes in shell controls and shell dialogs
  • added: Thumbnail support for TspSkinFileListView (available for Win XP and newer)
  • added: Thumbnail support for all shell dialogs
  • added: a lot of improvements in controls

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.99 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE7 (32-bit)
  • added: improvements for TspSkinOfficeListBox, TspSkinOfficeComboBox, TspSkinHorzListBox, TspSkinGridView controls
  • improved: edit controls
  • added: improvements and optimizations in drawing methods

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.98 (May 18, 2014)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE6

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.97 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • added: improvements in SkinPrinter.pas unit
  • added: TspSkinCheckComboBox.UseSkinSize property
  • fixed: TspSkinPasswordEdit behavour when SkinData = nil
  • added: some optimizations in code
  • renamed packages

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.96 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE5 (32 bit)
  • improved: drawing of TspSkinComboBox control in disabled state
  • improved: TspSkinTreeView control

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.95 (Jun 15, 2013)

  • added: TspSkinListView.AlternateRow property (enable alternate background for row(DrawSkin property must be True))
  • added: TspSkinOfficeListBox.AlternateRow, TspSkinOfficeComboBox.AlternateRow property
  • added: Caption property for TspDynamicSkinForm.QuickButtons
  • improved: drawing of extended form caption (extended skins)
  • improved: scrollbars - now they can looks as in Mac OS (small size and without buttons (see updated iTunes demo))
  • improved: some extended skins
  • updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.90 (May 1, 2013)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE4 (32 bit)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.80 (Nov 24, 2012)

  • improved: Windows 8 support
  • improved: TspDynamicSkinForm component
  • fixed: problem with mouse wheel messages in Rad Studio XE2-XE3

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.76 (Oct 12, 2012)

  • added: TspSkinMDITabsBar.ShowChildIcon propery (now tabs can have icon of mdi child)
  • added: TspSkinFindDialog.CloseDialog method
  • added: TspSkinReplaceDialog.CloseDialog method
  • added: some optimizations in code
  • improved: some skins

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.75 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE3 (32 bit)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.70 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • added: a lot of improvements to controls
  • updated: drawing of default style
  • updated: SkinBuilder tool

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.62 (May 12, 2012)

  • added: support of TspButtonGroup.SkinDataName property (now it can be different)
  • improved: transparent inplace editors in grids

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.61 (Mar 24, 2012)

  • added: improvements in TspSkinNumericEdit, TspSkinDBNumericEdit and TspSkinSpinEdit, TspSkinDBSpinEdit controls
  • added: some optmizations in source code

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.60 (Feb 25, 2012)

  • added new TspSkinMessage.MessageDlg... methods with default button value
  • added special code for integraion with SmartEffects VCL (see new demos in SmartEffects VCL)
  • improved some controls

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.56 (Feb 25, 2012)

  • improved: shell controls and dialogs

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.55 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • added: default font in components and skins is "Tahoma" now (old was "Arial")
  • added: improvements in drawing of controls
  • updated: all skins from all collections
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: all demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.52 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • added: Touch property to controls (for Rad Studio 2010-XE2)
  • added: support for unicode hints (for use with Tnt unicode controls)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.50 (Nov 24, 2011)

  • added: new feature in skin-format: special button in form's caption to call popup menu (as in FireFox)
  • added: new feature in skin-format: tabs in form's caption
  • added: new skins collection with extended features for DynamicSkinForm VCL (skins include menu button, tabs and quick buttons for form's caption)
  • added: new properties and events for TspDynamicSkinForm VCL to work with buttons and tabs in form's caption (see help and demos)
  • updated: help
  • updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.41 (Oct 26, 2011)

  • improved: shell dialogs
  • updated: resource images in shell dialogs and font dialog (added new HQ png images for buttons)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.40 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • added: support for RAD Studio XE2 (32 bit)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.35 (May 5, 2011)

  • added: TspSkinRichEdit.Transparent, TspSkinRichEdit.WallPaper properties
  • added: TspSkinPanel.EmptyDrawing propertry
  • added: captions for items in the TspSkinToolBarEx control
  • added: TspSkinToolBarEx.ShowCaptions property
  • improved: TpsSkinCategoryButtons, TspSkinButtonGroup controls
  • updated: help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.32 (Apr 18, 2011)

  • added: TspSkinMemo.Wallpaper property (see UseCustomFont project in demo-pack to test this property and transparency mode of control)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.31 (Apr 7, 2011)

  • added: TspSkinMDITabsBar.ShowAddButton, TspSkinMDITabsBar.OnAddButtonClick (button to add mdi child (as in Opera, Mozilla browsers))
  • improved: edit controls (additional optimization in drawing)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.30 (Mar 24, 2011)

  • updated and improved: all edits, memos controls, grid's inplace editors (better drawing methods and behaviour on bitmap background)
  • added: TspSkinMemo.Transparent property
  • updated and improved: all grid controls in transparency mode and with wallpaper (better drawing methods and behaviour on bitmap background)
  • improved: form drawing for non-standard applications (as iTunes, Winamp and more (TspDynamicSkinForm.SupportNCArea=False))
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: demos
  • improved: skins

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.22 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • improved: behaviour of cursor when layered borders are resizing
  • improved: chinese support for TbsSkinMonthCalendar control
  • added: a lot of improvements and optimization to controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.20 (Feb 8, 2011)

  • added: TspSkinMainMenuBar.ToolBarMode, TspSkinMainMenuBar.ToolBarModeItemTransprent properties (now control can paint as toolbar)
  • added: a lot of improvements and optimization to controls
  • improved: drawing of controls with big fonts (you must change UseSkinSize, UseSkinFont and DefaultFont properties of controls)

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.15 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • added: TspSkinMainMenuBar.UseSkinSize property
  • (now control can have any size with any big font (set TspSkinMainMenuBar.UseSkinSize to False, set TspSkinMainMenuBar.UseSkinFont to Fase, set TspSkinMainMenuBar.DefaultFont, TspSkinMainMenuBar.DefaultHeight property))
  • Added: TspDynamicSkinForm.UseSkinSizeInMenu (now menu items can have any size with any big font (set TspDynamicSkinForm.UseSkinSizeInMenu to False, set TspDynamicSkinForm.UseSkinFontInMenu to Fase, set TspDynamicSkinForm.DefaultMenuItemFont, set TspDynamicSkinForm.DefaultMenuItemHeight property))
  • updated and improved: skin-core for menus
  • added: new cool HQ skins: Ubuntu, Ubuntu_Ext, Ubuntu_Aero
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.11 (Dec 28, 2010)

  • improved: skin format for TspSkinPageControl, TspSkinTabControl
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: skins

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.10 (Dec 23, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinGridView control
  • added: improvements to TspDynamicSkinForm component
  • updated: help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.08 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • added: Anchors properties for skin-areas (TspDynamicSkinForm.SupportNCArea = False) - now work with areas is simple and more intuitive
  • updated: demos and skins with skin-areas (Areas, ITunes10)
  • improved: adjustment of the form size when skin change (TspDynamicSkinForm..ClientWidth 0 and TspDynamicSkinForm..ClientHeight 0)
  • added: a lot of optimizations in source code
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.07 (Dec 7, 2010)

  • added: TspDynamicSkinForm.Move and TspDynamicSkinForm.SetBounds method (these methods automatically set form position with layered border and without it)
  • improved: TspSkinHorzListBox control
  • improved: behaviour of MDI forms
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.06 (Nov 27, 2010)

  • added: some optimizations in skin-core for Aero interface (Windows Vista, Windows 7)
  • improved: quick button behaviour in MDIForm
  • added: new HQ skins: Win7, Win7_Ext, Win7_Aero

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.05 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • added: scrollbars for MDI-client area (see TspDynamicSkinForm.ShowMDIScrollBars property)
  • updated: skin-core for MDI applications
  • updated: behaviour of the MDI main form and childs (now you can create excellent MDI applications with additional features)
  • updated: MDI demo

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.01 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • added: TspMDITabsBar.DblClickChildMove property (if True then if you dblclick on the tab then child move to (0, 0) position - easy way to work faster with multiple childs)
  • added: support for TspSkinCalendar.TransparentMode = True
  • improved: drawing of TspMDITabsBar
  • improved: scroll of TspSkinScrollPanel, TspSkinToolBar (when CanScroll = True)
  • fixed: border of mdi child blink sometimes if it receive WM_NCACTIVATE message in Windows Vista and Windows 7
  • updated: MDI demo

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 12.0 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • improved and updated: skin format of layered borders
  • improved and updated: format of skin-objects
  • improved: behaviour of layered borders (when border move and resize with form)
  • improved: skin format for dialog window (added special close button for form's caption in skins)
  • added: new drawing methods for skin-objects in layered borders
  • added: expand images for TreeView in skins
  • added: PopupMenu support for TspDynamicSkinForm.QuickButtons
  • added: checkboxes for TspSkinOfficeListBox control
  • added: BeginUpdateItems and EndUpdateItems methods for TspSkinOfficeListBox, TspSkinOfficeComboBox
  • added: TspSkinListView.OnDrawSkinSubItem event (event for drawing subitems when TspSkinListView.DrawSkin=True)
  • added: a lot of small improvements, drawing optimizations in many controls
  • added: new "SkyFi_Ext", "SkyFi_Aero" skins
  • updated: all skins (last version of skins work correctly only with latest version of DynamicSkinForm)
  • updated: demos
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.71 (Nov 3, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinScrollBox.ScrollToControl method
  • improved: rewritten TspSkinDateEdit, TspSkinDBDateEdit controls
  • improved: drawing of TspSkinDBGrid control

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.70 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • added: ItemSkinDataName, HeaderSkinDataName, HeaderLeftAlignmnet properties to the TspSkinOfficeListBox control
  • added: HeaderSkinDataName, HeaderLeftAlignmnet properties to the TspSkinLinkBar control
  • added: OnShowEditor, OnHideEditor events for grid-controls
  • added: improvements in skin-core
  • added: new additional DB-Demo
  • added: new skin "ITunes10" to the skin collection
  • updated: iTunes 10 demo
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.67 (Oct 19, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinToolBarEx.ArrowImages property (now you can customize arrows in scroll buttons (set your png images for active and normal states))
  • added: examples of our png images for TspSkinToolBarEx.ArrowImages property in demo-pack
  • added: TspSkinToolbarEx.BeginUpdateItems and TspSkinToolbarEx.EndUpdateItems methods
  • improved: editor controls
  • improved: scroll methods and behaviour of scollbuttons in TspSkinScrollPanel, TspSkinToolbar controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • added: cool HQ skins "HUD", "HUD_Ext", "HUD_Aero"

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.65 (Oct 19, 2010)

  • updated: text drawing on layered borders (now text on layered window have alpha = 255 and borders of the text smoothly pass to layered window)
  • updated: effects drawing (glow, shadow, reflection) for text in layered borders (now effects smoothly pass to layered window)
  • improved: now text and effects for text are drawn more excellently in layered borders and in layered borders, which have blur alpha blend effect in Windows Vista, 7 for Aero interface
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: skins collections
  • improved: drawing of QuickButtons on layered borders with images from TspPngImageList
  • improved: drawing of items in TreeView controls when DrawSkin = True

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.60 (Sep 16, 2010)

  • improved: skin format of layered borders
  • improved: behaviour of layered borders
  • improved: behaviour of edit-controls in design time
  • updated: skins with layered borders
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.56 (Sep 6, 2010)

  • added: support for Rad Studio XE

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.55 (Aug 28, 2010)

  • added: FixedColSizing property to TspSkinGrid and TspSkinDrawGrid controls (now you can resize fixed cells from first column)
  • added: ColSizingWithLine to TspSkinGrid, TspSkinDrawGrid and TspSkinDBGrid controls (now you can resize columns from full height of vertical lines)
  • added: TreeShowLines, TreeButtonImageList, TreeButtonExpandImageIndex, TreeButtonNoExpandImageIndex to TspSelectDirectoryDialog dialog (now you can customize expand button and lines of shell treeview control in dialog)
  • added: a lot of optimizations and improvements in controls and dialogs
  • improved: MDI support
  • improved: skins form "layered borders" collection
  • updated: demos
  • updated: help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.51 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • improved: drawing of ListView and TreeView control when DrawSkin = True
  • added: now ListView and TreeView can repaint items (Drawskin = True) with external image list (as in shell controls)
  • added: DrawSkin property to shell controls: TspSkinFileListView, TspSkinDirTreeView (now shell controls paint items with bitmap-selection, skin checkboxes, lines)
  • added: TspSkinData.DlgTreeViewDrawSkin, TspSkinData.DlgListViewDrawSkin (enable / disable DrawSkin property of listview and treeview controls in dialogs (shell dialogs))
  • updated: help
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.50 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinTreeView.DrawSkin property (If True then control paint items with skin elements (bitmap-selection, lines, buttons);
  • also now controls can use png-images from TspPngImageList)
  • added: TspSkinTreeView.ButtonImageList, TspSkinTreeView.ButtonExpandImageIndex, TbsSkinTreeView.ButtonNoExpandImageIndex properties (images for expanding button. Now you can use your image for expanding button (DrawSkin must be True))
  • added: TspSkinListView.DrawSkin, TspSkinListView.DrawSkinLines (If True then control paint item with skin elements (bitmap-selection, checkboxes, gird lines);
  • also now controls can use png-images from TspPngImageList))
  • added: TspSkinSlider.ThumbImageList, TbsSkinSlider.ThumbImageIndex, TbsSkinSlider.ThumbImageActiveIndex property
  • (now you can use your image for thumb from any image list (for example, from TspPngImageList))
  • added: optimizations in source code
  • improved: TspSkinButtonsBar control
  • updated: help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.45 (Jul 14, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinDBGrid.IndicatorImageList property (now you can use custom images for indicator in grid, for example - png)
  • improved: printer dialogs
  • improved: Input in TspSkinDateEdit control
  • improved: TspSkinMonthCalendar control (for chinese language)
  • updated: drawing of button controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.42 (Jul 5, 2010)

  • improved: form updating when you change SkinData.ShowLayeredBorders property in real time (with full layered border)
  • added: some small improvements in SkinBuilder
  • added: optimizations in source code
  • added: demonstration of global font changing when loading skin in "MainDemo"

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.41 (Jun 21, 2010)

  • added: TspDynamicSkinForm.NCDraggAble property (now you can freeze form's position on the desktop)
  • added: DlgInitialDir property to TspSkinFileEdit and TspSkinSaveFileEdit controls
  • added: some small improvements in different controls
  • improved: working with actions in buttons
  • fixed: shell dialog not execute if folder not exist
  • added: cool new HQ skins: "Laconic" and "Laconic_Ext"

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.40 (May 31, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinPageControl.ButtonTabSkinDataName (use this property when TabStyle = tsButtons or tsFlatButtons; now conrtol can draw tabs as buttons)
  • added: TspSkinDivider control - special divider with alpha-channel (for example, you can use it in toolbar)
  • improved: caption object with animation effect
  • improved: drawing for TspSkinSpeedButton control in flat mode
  • improved: TspSkinShellListView control
  • improved: shell dialogs
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.37 (May 20, 2010)

  • improved: skin core for non-standard applications (as iTunes, WinAmp)
  • added: some small improvements in different controls
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: demos
  • updated: help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.35 (May 3, 2010)

  • added: New SkinBuilder, which use native skin engine with custom skin

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.30 (Apr 14, 2010)

  • added: ToolBarImageList property to all shell dialogs (now you can customize images in buttons, for example,
  • you can use TbsSkinPngImageList and add png images to shell dialogs)
  • added: ButtonsImageList property for TspSkinFontDialog, TspSkinTextDialog components (now you can customize images in buttons)
  • added: new Execute method to TspSkinSelectSkinsFromFolders (now this dialog can work with compressed and uncompressed skins (see help))
  • added: a lot of small improvements and optimizations in controls, forms, dialogs
  • added: TspSkinButton.CheckedMode and TspSkinSpeedButton.CheckedMode property (use this property to on/off some option)
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: help
  • updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.28 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • added: optimizations in skin core, small improvements for skin-objects
  • updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.27 (Mar 16, 2010)

  • added: updown control in TspSkinTimeEdit, TspSkinDBTimeEdit control (see ShowUpDown property)
  • added: new cool HQ modern skin: "Air"
  • improved: TspSkinDBDateEdit control
  • fixed some problems with TspSkinPrinterSetup and TspSkinPageSetup dialogs

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.26 (Feb 23, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinData.GlobalChangeFont method and TspSkinData.OnLoadData event (use this method and event to global font change in skin in real time - now you can change font of the skin's elements on the fly (see help))
  • added: "global change font" option in SkinBuilder (open ready skin in SkinBuilder and change font in all elements instantly)
  • updated: help
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.25 (Feb 8, 2010)

  • updated and improved: creating and visualization methods for layered borders and glow effects (important changes in core)
  • updated: a lot of skins (modification of images for layered border and glow effects)
  • updated and improved: skin format of layered borders (see PlayerII demo - now you can use layered borders for non-standard windows)
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: demos

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.22 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • added: TspSkinDBNavigator.ImageList property (now you can use your images)
  • added: collection of png-images for TspSkinDBNavigator control (use TspPngImageList)
  • added: TspSkinMonthCalendar.WeekNumbers and TspSkinMonthCalendar.ShowToday properties
  • improved: drawing of TspSkinMonthCalendar control

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.20 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • added: blur alphablend effect for layered borders (available for Aero interface in Windows Vista and Windows 7)
  • added: experimental skins with blur alphablend effect (Amazing_Aero, SLMedia_Aero, BlueBrilliant_Aero, Charm_Aero, 2010Black_Aero)
  • added: TspSkinData.AeroBlurEnabled (on / off blur alphablend effect)
  • updated: skin format of layered borders (support for blur alphablend effect in Aero interface)
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.17 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • improved: form showing and alphablending animation in Windows 7
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.16 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • fixed: small problems with mouse activation in listbox, memo, treeview and listview controls in Windows 7
  • added: some improvements in source code

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.15 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • updated and improved: skin format of the layered borders
  • added: new HQ skin "SLMedia" (this skin only for latest version)
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.10 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • added: db-controls (TspSkinDBGrid, TspSkinDBText,
  • TspSkinDBEdit, TspSkinDBMemo, TspSkinDBMemo2,
  • TspSkinDBCheckRadioBox, TspSkinDBListBox, TspSkinDBComboBox,
  • TspSkinDBNavigator, TspSkinDBImage, TspSkinDBRadioGroup,
  • TspSkinDBSpinEdit, TspSkinDBRichEdit,
  • TspSkinDBLookUpListBox, TspSkinDBLookUpComboBox,
  • TspSkinDBDateEdit, TspSkinDBTimeEdit,
  • TspSkinDBPasswordEdit, TspSkinDBNumericEdit)
  • added: new cool demo with db-controls and custom type of the application
  • (you can create really unique applications with DynamicSkinForm VCL)
  • updated: skin-engine core
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.01 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • improved: behaviour of layered border
  • improved: skins with layered borders
  • optimized: source code in speffbmp and sputils units
  • updated: SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 11.0 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • added: full layered borders support (see Skins page)
  • added: new skins with full layered borders + updated old skins
  • updated: skin format
  • updated: SkinBuilder
  • updated: help
  • updated: demos
  • added: a lot of small improvements and optimizations

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 10.33 (Apr 2, 2009)

  • updated spzlib unit
  • updated SkinBuilder

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 9.10 (Dec 8, 2007)

  • added support for SmartEffects VCL
  • added OnChange and OnChanging event in TspButtonsBar control
  • added some small improvements

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 9.09 (Nov 24, 2007)

  • added close buttons for tabs in TspSkinMDITabsBar control (see ShowCloseButtons property; now you can close mdichilds from tabs)
  • added TspSkinCheckRadioBox.UseSkinFontColor property
  • improved drawing of TspSkinPageControl and TspSkinTabControl
  • added some small improvements in shell dialogs

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 9.08 (Nov 14, 2007)

  • added close buttons for tabs in TspSkinPageControl (real size offset in tabs for close button)
  • added TspSkinPageControl.ShowCloseButtons property
  • added TspSkinPageControl.FreeOnClose property
  • added TspSkinPageControl.OnClose event
  • added TspSkinPageControl.HideTabs method (hide all tabs)
  • added TspSkinPageControl.ShowTabs method (show all tabs after HideTabs procedure)
  • improved drawing of big tabs in TspSkinPageControl (now it looks more quality)
  • updated most of skins (added close buttons for "tab" control)
  • updated SkinBuilder
  • updated help

New in DynamicSkinForm VCL 8.35 (May 18, 2007)

  • improved skin format of the trackbar control
  • improved skin format of the form (custom skins (SupportNCArea = False))
  • improved of the some skin-objects on form