Toolbar Icons for FireMonkey

Toolbar Icons for FireMonkey

Many applications are not competitive and will never be a commercial success for a simple reason: developers focus only on functions and cause the surface to ignore. Neglect mar. Design and quality of the user interface is a grave mistake that many developers still do – which makes their potential sellers to slow sellers. On the market are the quality standards for application front-ends high – design is a essential part of the development process. If your deadline is approaching fast and you will notice that the design is not feasible at a reasonable level, you have to resort to a complete icon collection to add your product to the final touches. Toolbar Icons for FireMonkey is a set of high-quality professional icons for modern applications of all types. The style is cool, clear and professional, so you can be sure not to deter legitimate customers. The Symbol set Covered range of actions and objects is very wide and is for a typical toolbar of a general purpose application perfectly adequate: file operations, undo / redo, printing, lists and reports, email confirmations, options and user settings, search, online work. All glossy icons available in various sizes – 48×48, 32×32, 24×24, 20×20 and 16×16 – and color depths – 256 and True Color. To assist you in creating more dynamic interfaces, the authors of the Toolbar Icons for FireMonkey have symbols provided in 3 states – normal, disabled and enlightened. The collection is in the ICO, GIF, PNG and BMP formats, converting is so unnecessary! Looking for an attractive set of toolbar icons for your new or re-designed application? Try the Toolbar Icons for FireMonkey.

Represents a toolbar component for use in FireMonkey forms.

The toolbar is usually aligned at the top of a form, and has a bunch of buttons that represent shortcuts or ways to access the functionality embedded into your application. A toolbar holds essentially speed buttons, but any other FireMonkey control can sit inside a toolbar. All tool buttons on a toolbar should maintain a uniform width and height for consistency.

Typically, the tool buttons correspond to items in an application’s menu and give the user more direct access to the application’s commands, but they can access other functionality implemented into your application.

This document outlines the basic procedure on how to use the glyFX toolbar images with Borland Delphi. The steps apply to any version from 2 to 7. There may be small cosmetic interface differences, however the procedure remains the same.

There are two main mechanisms for adding icons on your controls, image lists and embedding into controls.

Image Lists

Image Lists allow you to keep a single object that contains all of your icons in one place. The advantage is that you can edit the images in the Image List, and the controls will automatically update if you have made any changes to those icons. If you use a particular image on more than one control it also lets you store just one copy of the image within the application, rather than within each control.

FMX (Firemonkey) can easily achieve a lot of VCL cannot or difficult to implement special effects, so the FMX program as an interface, packaged into the DLL by the VCL program call, is a good solution. For the completeness of the program, you do not want to see the FMX program displaying icons on the taskbar. However, normal Windows functions do not seem to work, such as after you get the FMX form handle, using the ShowWindow function to hide the taskbar icon, the result is useless. In fact, the reason is very simple, but you use the handle is not correct.