VCL - Tips & Tricks (October 2019)

We’ve compiled a short list of interesting VCL-related support tickets we answered in October. Hopefully, you’ll find them of value and can integrate our suggestions in your next Delphi projects.
If you’d like to share a VCL-related support ticket with the DevExpress developer community, please feel free to a post a link below.

Performance Related Support Tickets

• How to improve the performance of the DevExpress VCL Scheduler control (T827821)

VCL Common

• TdxTabbedMDIManager - How to change the background color of the Tab (T826129)

ExpressLibrary

• TcxImageList - How to change the size of all SVG images in a TcxImageList in code instead of using the ImageList dialog (T825366)

ExpressEditors Library

• TcxDateEdit - How to change the popup calendar's time format (T821467)
• How to create an Alert Window that cannot be closed (T828543)
• QRCode - How to paint an image inside the code area (T825304)
• How to increase text indents of the TcxTextEdit and TcxMemo editors (T825545)

ExpressSkins Library

• How to specify the popup menu item text color for its "hot" state (T826104)

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• How to obtain coordinates of a clicked region within a cell (T821234)
• How to enable the Update button of the Edit Form in Unbound Table Views (T823336)
• How to create a descendant of the Table View and modify default indents (T822539)

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

• How to modify display texts in Rows and Columns (T825805)

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• How to populate a TcxTreeList from values in an array (T826159)

ExpressScheduler Suite

• How to find target events during drag and drop operations (T821452)

ExpressPrinting System

• How to obtain the PDF Viewer's print preview form and modify it (T821458)

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