About

ATButton is OS-independant button component, flat look. Button as usual has Caption, OnClick.

• button state can be: usual (default: light gray), mouse-over (light gray), checked (dark gray), disabled (red-gray)
• buttons have border of 1..n pixels
• prop Caption
• prop Checkable means that click toggles Checked
• prop Focusable means that button can focus (and paint frame of other color if focused)
• prop Flat: passive (not under cursor) button don't paint its backgnd and border
• prop Kind: button can have several kinds.

<figure> <img src="atbutton_demo.png" title="atbutton_demo.png" /> <figcaption>atbutton_demo.png</figcaption> </figure>

Author: Alexey Torgashin

Kinds of buttons

Buttons can have these Kind values:

• abuTextOnly: Show caption only.
• abuIconOnly: Show icon only.
• abuTextIconHorz: Show icon and caption righter it.
• abuTextIconVert: Show icon and caption below it.
• abuSeparatorHorz: Show horizontal separator line.
• abuSeparatorVert: Show vertical separator line.

Icon can be set by 2 ways:

• prop Images: TImageList; with prop ImageIndex (used first)
• prop Picture: TPicture (used if no Images/ImageIndex is set)

To paint also drop-down arrow on the right side, set Arrow=True. To make button with arrow only, set Kind=abuTextOnly and Arrow=True.

Theme

Colors/fonts of all buttons defined by global var, of type like this

type
  TATButtonTheme = record
    FontName: string;
    FontSize: integer;
    FontStyles: TFontStyles;
    ColorFont,
    ColorFontDisabled,
    ColorBgPassive,
    ColorBgOver,
    ColorBgChecked,
    ColorBgDisabled,
    ColorArrow,
    ColorBorderPassive,
    ColorBorderOver,
    ColorBorderFocused: TColor;
    MouseoverBorderWidth: integer;
    PressedBorderWidth: integer;
    PressedCaptionShiftY: integer;
    PressedCaptionShiftX: integer;
  end;  
  
var
  ATButtonTheme: TATButtonTheme;

License

MPL 2.0 or LGPL.

Download

GitHub repository: https://github.com/Alexey-T/ATFlatControls

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "ATButton", as it stood on 2021-12-16 after a change by Alextp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.