It must be my Dumb Day - Why No button icons??

[pixelink]

Per dialog example wiki page...
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Dialog_Examples

Action buttons should be showing an icon image.
I copied the code off the page exactly.

I have added all kinds of uses trying to find what makes the icons show up on the buttons.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. uses
2.   Classes, SysUtils, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs,
3.   Buttons, StdCtrls,LCLType, ComCtrls, ExtCtrls;
4.  
5. procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
6. var
7.   Reply, BoxStyle: Integer;
8. begin
9.   BoxStyle := MB_ICONQUESTION + MB_YESNO;
10.   Reply := Application.MessageBox('Press either button', 'MessageBoxDemo', BoxStyle);
11.   if Reply = IDYES then Application.MessageBox('Yes       ', 'Reply',MB_ICONINFORMATION)
12.     else Application.MessageBox('No         ', 'Reply', MB_ICONHAND);
13. end;

I GET NO icons. Now what am I missing this time??

[pixelink]

FYI... just in case someone wonders.

I have been using Application.MessageBox for the past two years not caring about the icon buttons.

But, today, I thought, why not... lets just see if like them or not.

That's why I haven't tried for so long.

[Handoko]

As far as I know, we are not allowed to customize the button's image. The images are handled by the OS/theme/widgetset. On my system, the no button always is an 'x' mark and the yes button always is a correct sign.

[pixelink]

I am not talking about customizing... I get NO buttons at all, not even the ones shown on the wiki page.

[pixelink]

NO icons show on my message boxes at all... never have


I am talking about the actions buttons "Yes & No" (and all others)

[lucamar]

It's widgetset-dependent but most actual (and past) WS will not show icons in buttons. It's been considered "tacky" and "demodé" (by non-Delphi programers) since quite a long time ago

I never notice unless they are there (as they are e.g. in the TButtonPanel) but I've made a small test; attached is the result.

[pixelink]

Are you saying Windows blocks them??

Then i don't understand.

In the LAZ examples = testall

Is a sample of Dialogs (menu) and they all show the icons fine.

[Handoko]

On my Ubuntu Mate GTK2 system, many of the buttons have an icon. But not for ignore, retry and abort.

[pixelink]

This is what I get for that "testall" demo in the LAZ examples folder.

Nothing is done different then what I did as far as uses or settings

This is on Win10

[Handoko]

I never tried "testall" demo. But I know you can use TBitButton and set the TBitButton.Kind to a predefined icon.

I'm going to sleep now. I'll try testall tomorrow.

[wp]

You did not look at all settings of that demo project. Open the "project options" > "Application":  You will see that the checkmark at "Use manifest source (and enable themes") is not set. Default, however, and therefore probably the setting of your own program, is that this checkbox is checked. When you remove this checkmark for you program you will have the icons in the message dialogs. But simultaneously you will also have the ancient look and feel of Windows 95.

[wp]

It's widgetset-dependent but most actual (and past) WS will not show icons in buttons. It's been considered "tacky" and "demodé" (by non-Delphi programers) since quite a long time ago

Just for completeness: When there is a TApplicationProperties component on the form you can select whether TBitButtons and TSpeedButtons are always visible, always hidden or follow the system standard (property "ShowButtonGlyphs"). Similarly there is a property "ShowMenuGlyhs" for the icons assigned to menu items.

[lucamar]

It's widgetset-dependent but most actual (and past) WS will not show icons in buttons. It's been considered "tacky" and "demodé" (by non-Delphi programers) since quite a long time ago

Just for completeness: When there is a TApplicationProperties component on the form you can select whether TBitButtons and TSpeedButtons are always visible, always hidden or follow the system standard (property "ShowButtonGlyphs"). Similarly there is a property "ShowMenuGlyhs" for the icons assigned to menu items.

To complete even more, note that it doesn't affect "standard" dialogs functions MessageBox, MessageDlg, ShowMessage, etc. Just tested it.

[pixelink]

You did not look at all settings of that demo project. Open the "project options" > "Application":  You will see that the checkmark at "Use manifest source (and enable themes") is not set. Default, however, and therefore probably the setting of your own program, is that this checkbox is checked. When you remove this checkmark for you program you will have the icons in the message dialogs. But simultaneously you will also have the ancient look and feel of Windows 95.

I unchecked it... still no icons

[lucamar]

I unchecked it... still no icons

You unchecked and ... rebuilt the program? Because t doesn't look as if it were theme-less ...