TdxUIAdornerManager Class
A UI adorner manager component.
Declaration
TdxUIAdornerManager = class(
TcxCustomComponent
)Remarks
The UI adorner manager is a non-visual component designed to mark and emphasize certain UI elements in your application. The adorner manager displays one or two transparent adorner layers on top of the parent form. Each layer is dedicated to displaying specific UI adorners – badges and guides. Badges can show custom text hints, messages, and icons while guides highlight their target UI elements by darkening the rest of the application form and provide the capability to display a custom popup message on a mouse click.
The TdxUIAdornerManager class extends is ancestor with the following members that allow you to:
Create or destroy the adorner manager component at runtime (Create and Destroy).
Manage the badge and guide layers and their elements (Badges and Guides).
Assign an image source for badges (Images).
Custom paint all or only specific adorners (OnAdornerCustomDraw).
Respond to clicking a badge or guide (OnAdornerClick).
Optimize the application performance when multiple adorner changes are performed (BeginUpdate and EndUpdate).
Respond to enabling or disabling a badge or guide adorner layer (OnActiveChanged).
Display a callout popup for a clicked guide UI adorner (OnGuideGetCalloutPopupControl).