Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime

VCL styles are a powerful way to change the appearance of your application, but using them only as design-time tools is way too limited. One of the main features of a VCL style is the ability to change the style while an application is running.

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Getting ready

Because a VCL style is simply a particular kind of binary file, we can allow our users to load their preferred style at runtime, and we can even ...

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