[Borland] Use Styles in VCL-Formulas

[Mi4uric3]

In development environments which can use the "Visual Component Library (VCL)" by Borland, Inprise and CodeGear you have options to change the style of your VCL-GUIs.

Screenshots:

	Normal GUI
	Styled GUI

Use styles in exe-files:

If you create a project for a new exe-file, you can simply change the styles in the project-options menu:

"Project > Options > Application > Appearance" ()

Use styles in dll-files: (Main part of this tutorial)

If you create a project for a dll-file, you don't have that simple option.
Borland gives you 2 functions to do this in your source-code, but:
Me and many others can't get the 1st one ("TStyleManager::LoadFromResource()") to work and the other one ("TStyleManager::LoadFromFile()") requires the styles to be on disc, and I don't want to drop any files to disc.

So after trying it out for hours I created an exe-file project and looked for the things, which define the style to be used, tried out manually adding these to the files of the dll-file project and it worked!

Solution:

To use styles you need to insert into:

ProjectName.cbproj:

[...]
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Base)'!=''">
	<ProjectType>CppDynamicLibrary</ProjectType>
	<VCL_Custom_Styles>"Ruby Graphite|VCLSTYLE|$(PUBLIC)\Documents\RAD Studio\9.0\Styles\RubyGraphite.vsf"</VCL_Custom_Styles>
	<Multithreaded>true</Multithreaded>
	[...]
</PropertyGroup>
[...]

Anywhere in your code: (where you start your GUI for example)

TStyleManager::TrySetStyle("Ruby Graphite"); // Name of the style is defined in the ProjectName.cbproj

I hope its helpful for anyone, I saw many people on the internet asking for a solution when I tried to find one, too.

Mi4uric3