I’m idea hunting ok
I want in my form as a set up page for the user to pick up a chosen screen object and locate it in a Delphi form in run time and sometimes size the object. I can swap out the object for the real thing by a setting. I want a menu with these new screen objects to excite Delphi code example Delete, lock, connect to a data base field…
a we bit like MS access set up but different.
1/ Has any one see anything like that? third party or something
2/ with Delphi screen objects change a setting in TControl or some where else in run time
3/ the mouse on screen can change its shape to show moving object, sizing object…
screen objects
editor with text over the editor
Memo with text over the Memo
Combobox with text over the ComboBox
move an area to latter put a picture in
…
Have a look at this project that I found. I haven’t used it, but it looks like it would do some of what you want. Some of the other functionality might be done by creating new components inheriting from the normal delphi controls.
Geoffrey Smith have you seen a editor/Combobox list search screen object in Delphi
databases have navigators but its not as fast as in a text type search or named based method
continuing my search for one more thing
Its effectively an editor that contains a list (alphabetical) menu up and down combined with some of the full list displayed so the closest words typed in the editor are alphabetically displayed and it can have a scroll bar to see through the list too. The user selects from the list to fully fill the editor and considers that is the selection. I also what the use to return to the list to do another search something like a combo box button in the editor. Some of the old pascal stuff had that sort of thing.
You’ll also find the JvDesign components in the Jedi Code Library or JVCL which provide the same Delphi form designer experience at runtime and should be free and include a demo from memory.