OSX Borderless TEDIT Anyone?

[Josh]

Hi

Does anyone know of a borderless TEDIT Component for OSX,
setting border to none does not remove the border as it does in windows.

[Fungus]

If you know how much space the borders take up, then you can add the TEdit control to a borderless TPanel and set TEdit.Top:= -BorderHeight; TEdit.Left:= -BorderWidth; HideBorderPanel.Width:= TEdit.Width - (2*BorderWidth);  HideBorderPanel.Height:= TEdit.Height - (2*BorderHeight). I know it's a hack, but it should work :-)

[lainz]

You can use Custom Drawn one and create a drawer (is how the TCDEdit is painted). For an example of a drawer see here:
https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgracontrols/blob/master/bgracustomdrawn.pas

First install Custom Drawn package (comes with Lazarus).

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1. TBGRADrawer = class(TCDDrawerCommon)

That is the class descendant you need to create (With a name of your choice), and here the Edit methods you need to override:

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1. { Edit }
2.     procedure DrawEditBackground(ADest: TCanvas; ADestPos: TPoint;
3.       ASize: TSize; AState: TCDControlState; AStateEx: TCDEditStateEx); override;
4.     procedure DrawEditFrame(ADest: TCanvas; ADestPos: TPoint; ASize: TSize;
5.       AState: TCDControlState; AStateEx: TCDEditStateEx); override;
6.     procedure DrawCaret(ADest: TCanvas; ADestPos: TPoint; ASize: TSize;
7.       AState: TCDControlState; AStateEx: TCDEditStateEx); override;
8.     procedure DrawEdit(ADest: TCanvas; ASize: TSize; AState: TCDControlState;
9.       AStateEx: TCDEditStateEx); override;

Finally do this:

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1. initialization
2.   RegisterDrawer(TBGRADrawer.Create, dsCommon);

Then you can drop a TCDEdit, include your unit with your drawer in the uses of the form unit. That's all, you have your Edit with custom style you made.

[ps]

Just use TMemo instead of TEdit. TMemo work"s without border.

[Josh]

Hi Lainz,

Thanks for your answer; I will play around with custome drawn, as this may be a usefull approach to create my own custom controls that Renders Cross Platform.

Hi ps.
Thanks I will look into the Tmemo, I never thought of using a Tmemo probably because of multiline; but then this is not a problem as Memo Key Events will be changed to allow just what I need to Enter.