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Minimum requirements to deploy FireMonkey on Windows

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For starters, I’m writing an application for a customer that relies heavily on custom styles. These styles are composed of several sub controls and visual effects (TBlurEffect, TShadowEffect, etc…)

On my dev machine these effects and styles render correctly with no errors (Windows Server 2012), the same goes for another test machine running windows 7. When attempting to run on one of the client’s servers, I receive an Abstract error when the style is applied. I created a test app with 4 different styles included (3 of which have effects and 1 which is just a TRectangle). The 3 effect styles all give the same Abstract error, but the simple rectangle style does not (leading me to believe this is the culprit).

I verified the clients machine is compliant to the specs, but I still feel something is off:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE5/en/FireMonkey_Platform_Prerequisites

Ultimately, I would like these effects to work, but if there is something off with the customers system compared to the Firemonkey requirements I would like to see if there is some kind of directive or global variable that I could use to check with, and disable the effects at runtime. If anyone could help that would be appreciated.

Customers dxdiag results:
—————— System Information
—————— Time of this report: 3/10/2015, 10:28:20
Machine name: ##REMOVED## Operating System: Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_qfe.130703-1535)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: PowerEdge 1950
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 2.7.0
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5310 @ 1.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
Memory: 8186MB RAM
Page File: 3175MB used, 6861MB available
Windows Dir: C:WINDOWS DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.3790.3959 32bit Unicode

My test Project:

program Project1;
uses
System.StartUpCopy,
FMX.Forms,
Unit1 in ‘Unit1.pas’ {Form1};

{$R *.res}

begin
Application.Initialize;
Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1);
Application.Run;
end.

My test Unit:

unit Unit1;

interface

uses
System.SysUtils, System.Types, System.UITypes, System.Classes, System.Variants,
FMX.Types, FMX.Controls, FMX.Forms, FMX.Graphics, FMX.Dialogs, FMX.StdCtrls,
FMX.ListBox,FMX.NumberBox,FMX.TabControl;

type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
StyleBook1: TStyleBook;
Button1: TButton;
Button2: TButton;
Button3: TButton;
Panel1: TPanel;
ComboBox1: TComboBox;
Label1: TLabel;
procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
private
{ Private declarations }
public
{ Public declarations }
end;

var
Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.fmx}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
I: Integer;
begin
Self.StyleBook:=StyleBook1;
ComboBox1.Items.Clear;
for I := 0 to StyleBook1.Style.ChildrenCount-1 do
Begin
ComboBox1.Items.Add(StyleBook1.Style.Children[i].StyleName);
End;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
if ComboBox1.ItemIndex>-1 then
Panel1.StyleLookup:=ComboBox1.Selected.Text;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
Self.StyleBook:=Nil;
Panel1.StyleLookup:=”;
ComboBox1.Items.Clear;
end;

end.

My Form:

object Form1: TForm1
Left = 0
Top = 0
Caption = ‘Form1’
ClientHeight = 480
ClientWidth = 640
FormFactor.Width = 320
FormFactor.Height = 480
FormFactor.Devices = [Desktop]
DesignerMasterStyle = 0
object StyleBook1: TStyleBook
Left = 256
Top = 192
ResourcesBin = {
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end
object Button1: TButton
Position.X = 32.000000000000000000
Position.Y = 136.000000000000000000
Size.Width = 161.000000000000000000
Size.Height = 22.000000000000000000
Size.PlatformDefault = False
TabOrder = 5
Text = ‘Assign StyleBook to Form’
OnClick = Button1Click
end
object Button2: TButton
Position.X = 32.000000000000000000
Position.Y = 192.000000000000000000
Size.Width = 161.000000000000000000
Size.Height = 22.000000000000000000
Size.PlatformDefault = False
TabOrder = 3
Text = ‘Assign Style to Panel’
OnClick = Button2Click
end
object Button3: TButton
Position.X = 32.000000000000000000
Position.Y = 248.000000000000000000
Size.Width = 161.000000000000000000
Size.Height = 22.000000000000000000
Size.PlatformDefault = False
TabOrder = 1
Text = ‘Clear Style Book and Style’
OnClick = Button3Click
end
object Panel1: TPanel
Align = Right
Position.X = 248.000000000000000000
Size.Width = 392.000000000000000000
Size.Height = 480.000000000000000000
Size.PlatformDefault = False
TabOrder = 4
end
object ComboBox1: TComboBox
Position.X = 32.000000000000000000
Position.Y = 56.000000000000000000
Size.Width = 161.000000000000000000
Size.Height = 22.000000000000000000
Size.PlatformDefault = False
TabOrder = 6
end
object Label1: TLabel
Position.X = 32.000000000000000000
Position.Y = 40.000000000000000000
Text = ‘Style’
end
object BlurEffect1: TBlurEffect
Softness = 0.300000011920929000
end
end