TcxCustomStyleSheet Class

The base class for all style sheets.

Declaration

TcxCustomStyleSheet = class(
    TcxComponent
)

Remarks

A style sheet represents a collection of styles for elements of controls supporting Styles technology (for instance, a grid view). Instead of specifying individual styles for a control element, you can assign it a style sheet, thus providing values for all style properties. To assign a style sheet to a control element, use the StyleSheet property inherited from the TcxCustomStyles class.

The TcxCustomStyleSheet object implements functionality common to all style sheets. It is the base class and does not actually provide any style properties. Descendants of the class publish style properties specific to a control element for which style sheets are designed. For instance, the TcxGridTableViewStyleSheet class declares styles specific to a grid table view.

Styles and style sheets are usually stored within a style repository (a TcxStyleRepository component) that provides WYSIWYG styles and style sheet editing capabilities. The style repository editor gives you the ability to create a style sheet of a specific type, adjust its properties, add predefined style sheets, load from and save style sheets to an INI file. You can also load/save style sheets to an INI file programmatically via the LoadStyleSheetsFromIniFile and SaveStyleSheetsToIniFile procedures respectively.