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Hello,
I'm trying to draw ribbon menu as Win7 does
something like this

But I don't know how to paint this light (at the bottom of image) ->

Any one know how to draw/paint that ?
Thanks

I put "ribbon menu windows 7 delphi" into Google and saw a bunch of things that might help. TMS appears to have something.

George

Ribbon components are included in Delphi 2009 and 2010. In case you only need menus have a look at this:

http://delphi.about.com/od/vclusing/a/2007ownerdraw.htm

You just have to change the colours within the code above. I took:

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const
  RICHMENU_MARG_X                     = 4;
  RICHMENU_MARG_Y                     = 4;
  RICHMENU_SEPARATOR_LEADING          = 6;
  RICHMENU_GUTTER_WIDTH               = 40;

  RICHMENU_SEPARATOR_BACKGROUND_COLOR = $00eee7dd;
  RICHMENU_SEPARATOR_LINE_COLOR       = $00c5c5c5;
  RICHMENU_GUTTER_COLOR               = $00F2DAC2;
  RICHMENU_ITEM_BACKGROUND_COLOR      = $00fafafa;
  RICHMENU_ITEM_SELECTED_COLOR        = $00e6d5cb;
  RICHMENU_FONT_COLOR                 = $006e1500;
  RICHMENU_FONT_DISABLED_COLOR        = $00dec5d8;

  RICHMENU_GRADIENT_START1            = $00EBFDFF;
  RICHMENU_GRADIENT_END1              = $00ABEBFF;
  RICHMENU_GRADIENT_START2            = $0069D6FF;
  RICHMENU_GRADIENT_END2              = $0096E4FF;

Best regards, PG

Hello friends!
I'll not use Delphi 2009/2010 because it use bitmap to draw ribbon control
All i need is how to draw the bottom image (see the light at the bottom image)
My control have many and different size, i can't use bitmap like CodeGear does

You should use a gradient fill algorithm to paint the control's background.

As an example, look at source code of TGradient component.