The components
You can find the components you will need most on the first three tabs
in the component palette. I am not going to discuss all of them here, refer
to the help file if you have specific questions (or mail
me if you can't figure something out). Here is an overview over the
most important components:
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MainMenu
Lets you add a standard menu bar to your form. To change the contents
double-click on the icon on the form.
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Label
Puts text on your form. The character in the caption with a "&"
in front of it will be underlined. You can link another component such
as TEdit to it. When the user pressen Alt+CHARACTER that component will
be selected. Modify the appearence of the text with the "font" property.
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Edit
Allows the user to input text. He can also use cut & paste.
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Memo
Multi-line Edit.
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Button
Powerful properties are "default" and "cancel" (make button default-
or cancel-button).
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Checkbox and Radiobutton
Allow the user to switch them on and off. From a group of radiobuttons
only one can be selected.
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Listbox and Combobox
Display lists. User can select an entry by clicking on it. You can
allow multiple selections, make them sorted, etc.
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Image
Probably easiest way to add a bitmap to your form. Use the "picture"
property.
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Tab- and Pagecontrol
Let you put more components on a form than would normally fit by providing
several layers. The user can switch between the layers by using the tabs
on top of the control. You can use the page-editor to add pages at design
time. This control is often used for option dialogs.
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