Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime
VCL styles are a powerful way to change the appearance of your application. One of the main features of VCL styles is the ability to change the style while the application is running.
Getting ready
Because a VCL Style is simply a particular kind of binary file, we can allow our users to load their preferred styles at runtime. We could even provide new styles by publishing them on a website or sending them by e-mail to our customers.
In this recipe, we'll change the style while the application is running using a style already linked at design time, or let the user choose between a set of styles deployed inside a folder.
How to do it…
Style manipulation at runtime is done using the class methods of ...
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