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I have in a old project, standard menus on my forms. The menu items are populated by TActions that I have made using the TActionManager.

I am updating this old project and would now like to change the appearance of my menu to XP Style as set by the TActionManager, so it can match the TToolBars on my forms which have changed to dsGradient.

Is there a non lazy way of making this transformation?

Otherwise it means I have to manually go through my forms, remove the TMainMenus, drop a TActionMainMenuBar on the form and then begin creating the TActionBars to populate the menus again, which I will be honest with you right now I don't feel like spending so much time doing this.

So if there is a way to automate the conversion somehow I would be interested to know, then I don't have to spend so much time manually changing them.

Equally, if the above can be done without manually making the changes, I would be interested to see if it is possible to reverse convert, eg TActionBar menu to TMainMenu?

If I must do it manually then so be it, but if there is a quicker better option then I really would like to know.

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  • Well I ended up making the transformation manually. Needless to say if there is an automated method out there I would still be interested in knowing it. Perhaps a tool to parse through the DFM of the form and make the required changes I don't know. –  Jul 09 '12 at 21:04

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I strongly suggest you to study the following converter utilities by ChoosPill :

  1. TB2KImpTb97
  2. TB2KImport

They are distributed in source code and support the import of all relevant items and properties from stock VCL components TMainMenu, TPopupMenu, TMenuItem and TToolBar to Jordan Russel's famous Toolbar97/Toolbar2000 components respectfully.

You can also consider to take a glimpse at TBXLib converter source code .

You can also consider delving into TdxBarConverter's source code if you are a DevExpress registred user.

They can serve as a good starting point for you.

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