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I remember you could always tell apps that were written in Delphi by the non-standard Ok/Cancel buttons with the icons.
by larrywright 8y ago
I remember you could always tell apps that were written in Delphi by the non-standard Ok/Cancel buttons with the icons.
- currysausage 8y agoAnd the mouse pointer when hovering hyperlinks was super-weird!
- dfox 8y agoTBitBtn ;) In fact in Windows 95 and everything after it simply looks totaly out of place and the Delphi documentation tried hard to dissuade people from using that and instead presented some idea of what MS's HIG say (notice that Delphi 2 does not use TBitBtn anywhere and tries to match W95 UI style very hard, even more than Office 95), obviously for a long time it didn't really work.
- int_19h 8y agoThis even predated VCL and Delphi. Remember OWL in Borland Pascal? https://i.imgur.com/esNFWJB.png https://i.imgur.com/esNFWJB.png
- philpem 8y agoI remember there being libraries and components for Delphi which allowed you to pull in BWCC.DLL to get that styling...! I had to bring up a radio programming tool on a Win98 laptop not long ago ("because legacy kit that still works and is somehow still supported"). First thing I saw, a BWCC styled "Radio Controller Connected -- Please Log On" screen. Once seen, never forgotten.
- dfox 8y agoI have the feeling that this particular screenshot (given the combination of BWCC and Ctrl3d style in same window) is actually of Graphics Vision, which is open source reimplementation of Turbo Vision with true GUI which uses exactly this styling.
- pjmlp 8y agoWhich was something that had to be explicitly enabled actually.