Exploring the style definition of a component

Now that our TButton is on the form and the Windows entry is selected in the Style selector, we may want to see the actual definition of the buttonstyle entry of this platform style. An easy way to achieve this is to right-click on the button instance (in the multi-device Form Designer) and select Edit Default Style... from the contextual pop-up menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.9

This will bring up the Style Designer IDE editor window. The IDE Structure view will now switch to represent Style elements and you can spot the Buttonstyle entry under the StyleContainer root node, shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.10

If you expand the Buttonstyle node, you'll see the actual definition of this style entry, including the background, glyphstyle, and text objects. Selecting these objects will give you access to their properties through the Object Inspector, where you can also see the actual class of each object ...