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Controlling your splitter(s)...

By clicking on the space between the regions, you can select design-time settings for the splitter:
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Changing the height (in this case) from 100 to 8...
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Of course if you want you can click on ...

Add TDashFramework on your TForm, select a layout from the chart:

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Everything paints the following ways (at Design time!)...

fl1C:
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fl2E:
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Pressing F9 to run the above, so you can see the ...

TDashFramework

Incorporates all of the helper routines ( so you do not have to write any code... )

Via Property: ThemeKeys:=True
F4 toggles Night Mode (the default) to Day Mode.
F5 toggles colors (Night Mode: Steal, Blue, Green, Teal, Red, Purple) (Day Mode: XP Blue, XP Olive, XP Silver ...

Inspired by Dev-Pas 1.9

Dev-Pas IDE has forms that have unique window titles and large borders. This inspired me to incorporate that capability into our newest component TDashFramework .

TDashFramework

Was inspired by trying to teach a customer how to use the TDashboard (MCS) Modern Component ...

Web like validation (in real-time)

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Day Mode:

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The first time you fill out the form, you click validate - and you see all of the errors (like field required messages). However, from that point forward, as you as you start to ...

36 Charts

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Day Mode:

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Category / value (bar and line family)

Line: smooth (Catmull-Rom) or straight, stepped, filled, stacked
Area: Line with filled areas, stackable
Bar: grouped or stacked, vertical or horizontal
Mixed ...

Since DXSock is the perfect tool for making EMail and Newsgroup Servers with minimal effort... Why not Message Components???

Message Components
Day Mode:

Swim Lanes

Some people call it SCRUMM, others call it Swim Lanes (I too call them " swim lanes "):

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Day Mode:

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In 1997, I started working for Heil Environmental... which had a plant in Japan, and we learned Lean ...

And if you caught the page control titles ... I started on the next 10+ controls to make cool planner support!

Night Mode: Day Mode:

Once I hit 20+ components, I realized, I literally painted (pun intended) myself into a corner. I stopped, and redesigned what I was calling Dashboard Smooth to support Night and Day mode. Also, living in the modern Browser age, jagged corners and "Windows" looking fonts are not acceptable. Crack ...