ThemedTitleBar

Project Manager: Markus Winhard

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The TitleBar of a VFP form displayed ‘In Screen’ or ‘In Top-Level Form’ looks a bit outdated nowadays. At least running in Win8 and compared to Office 2013 or Visual Studio 2013. The goal of this project is to provide a modern drop-in replacement for the default TitleBar, requiring no code changes to existing forms.

Before adding ThemedTitleBar:


After adding ThemedTitleBar:


How to:

1. Include ThemedTitleBar.vcx and ThemedTitleBarBase.vcx in your project.
2. Drop the ThemedTitleBar class on every form where you want to use it.

That's it.

Tweaks:

• ThemedTitleBar.lAutoMoveFormControls=.T.: Moves the controls on your form downward to make room for itself. This happens between first Form.Show() and first Form.Activate(). Set to .F. to suppress this behavior.
• Add properties ThemedTitleBarDescription and ThemedTitleBarImage to your form base class. Set them at the form level.
• If you don't like the property names ThemedTitleBarDescription and ThemedTitleBarImage you can change their names in the ThemedTitleBar class. Please see it's properties cDesciptionProperty and cImageProperty.

If you want to display a description below he form caption, create a property "

Full source code history of ThemedTitleBar is hosted in the repository under the SOURCE CODE button above.