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Developer’s Guide

Borland ®

Delphi ™ 6

for Windows

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Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction 1-1

What’s in this manual? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Manual conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Developer support services . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Ordering printed documentation . . . . . . . . 1-3

TPersistent branch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

TComponent branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15

TControl branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

TWinControl/TWidgetControl branch . . . 3-17

Properties common to TControl . . . . . . . 3-18

Action properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18

Position, size, and alignment

properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Display properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Parent properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

A navigation property. . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Drag-and-drop properties . . . . . . . . 3-20

Drag-and-dock properties

(VCL only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20

Standard events common to TControl . . . 3-20

Properties common to TWinControl and

TWidgetControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21

General information properties . . . . . 3-21

Border style display properties. . . . . . 3-22

Navigation properties . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

Drag-and-dock properties

(VCL only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

Events common to TWinControl and

TWidgetControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

Creating the application user interface . . . 3-23

Using Delphi components . . . . . . . . . . 3-23

Setting component properties . . . . . . . . 3-24

Using the Object Inspector . . . . . . . . 3-24

Using property editors . . . . . . . . . . 3-25

Setting properties at runtime . . . . . . . 3-25

Calling methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-25

Working with events and event

handlers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-25

Generating a new event handler . . . . . 3-26

Generating a handler for a component’s

default event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26

Locating event handlers. . . . . . . . . . 3-26

Associating an event with an existing

event handler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27

Associating menu events with event

handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28

Deleting event handlers . . . . . . . . . . 3-28

VCL and CLX components . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28

Adding custom components to the

Component palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30

Text controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31

Text control properties. . . . . . . . . . . 3-31

Part I

Programming with Delphi

Chapter 2

Developing applications with Delphi 2-1

Integrated development environment . . . . . . 2-1

Designing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Developing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Creating projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Editing code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Compiling applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Debugging applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Deploying applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Chapter 3

Using the component libraries 3-1

Understanding the component libraries. . . . . 3-1

Properties, methods, and events . . . . . . . 3-2

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

User events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

System events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Object Pascal and the class libraries . . . . . . . 3-4

Using the object model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

What is an object? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Examining a Delphi object . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Changing the name of a component . . . 3-7

Inheriting data and code from an object . . . 3-8

Scope and qualifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Private, protected, public, and published

declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

Using object variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Creating, instantiating, and destroying

objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Components and ownership . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Objects, components, and controls . . . . . . . . 3-12

TObject branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

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Properties of memo and rich text

controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31

Rich text controls (VCL only) . . . . . . . 3-32

Specialized input controls . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32

Scroll bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32

Track bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33

Up-down controls (VCL only). . . . . . . 3-33

Spin edit controls (CLX only) . . . . . . . 3-33

Hot key controls (VCL only). . . . . . . . 3-33

Splitter controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34

Buttons and similar controls . . . . . . . . . 3-34

Button controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34

Bitmap buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35

Speed buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35

Check boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35

Radio buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35

Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36

Cool bars (VCL only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36

Handling lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36

List boxes and check-list boxes . . . . . . 3-37

Combo boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-37

Tree views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-38

List views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-38

Date-time pickers and month

calendars (VCL only) . . . . . . . . . . . 3-39

Grouping components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-39

Group boxes and radio groups . . . . . . 3-39

Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-39

Scroll boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40

Tab controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40

Page controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40

Header controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41

Providing visual feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41

Labels and static text components . . . . 3-41

Status bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42

Progress bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42

Help and hint properties . . . . . . . . . . 3-42

Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43

Draw grids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43

String grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43

Value list editors (VCL only) . . . . . . . . . 3-43

Displaying graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44

Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44

Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44

Bevels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45

Paint boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45

Animation control (VCL only). . . . . . . 3-45

Developing dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45

Using open dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . 3-46

Using helper objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46

Working with lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47

Working with string lists . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47

Loading and saving string lists. . . . . . 3-48

Creating a new string list . . . . . . . . . 3-48

Manipulating strings in a list . . . . . . . 3-50

Associating objects with a string list . . . 3-52

Windows registry and INI files . . . . . . . 3-52

Using TIniFile (VCL only) . . . . . . . . 3-52

Using TRegistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53

Using TRegIniFile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53

Creating drawing spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 3-54

Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-54

Using streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-55

Chapter 4

Common programming tasks 4-1

Understanding classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Defining classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Handling exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Protecting blocks of code . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Responding to exceptions. . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Exceptions and the flow of control. . . . . 4-6

Nesting exception responses . . . . . . . . 4-6

Protecting resource allocations. . . . . . . . . 4-7

What kind of resources need

protection? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Creating a resource protection block. . . . 4-8

Handling RTL exceptions. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

What are RTL exceptions? . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Creating an exception handler . . . . . . 4-10

Exception handling statements. . . . . . 4-11

Using the exception instance . . . . . . . 4-11

Scope of exception handlers . . . . . . . 4-12

Providing default exception

handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Handling classes of exceptions . . . . . . 4-13

Reraising the exception . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Handling component exceptions . . . . . . 4-14

Exception handling with external

sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Silent exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Defining your own exceptions . . . . . . . . 4-16

Declaring an exception object type. . . . 4-16

Raising an exception. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Using interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Interfaces as a language feature . . . . . . . 4-18

Implementing interfaces across

the hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18

Using interfaces with procedures . . . . . 4-20

Implementing IInterface . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20

TInterfacedObject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21

Using the as operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21

Reusing code and delegation . . . . . . . . . 4-22

Using implements for delegation . . . . . 4-22

Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Memory management of interface

objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24

Using reference counting . . . . . . . . . 4-24

Not using reference counting . . . . . . . 4-25

Using interfaces in distributed

applications (VCL only) . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26

Defining custom variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27

Storing a custom variant type’s data . . . . . 4-28

Creating a class to enable the custom

variant type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28

Enabling casting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29

Implementing binary operations . . . . . 4-30

Implementing comparison operations . . 4-32

Implementing unary operations . . . . . 4-34

Copying and clearing custom

variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34

Loading and saving custom variant

values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-35

Using the TCustomVariantType

descendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-36

Writing utilities to work with a custom

variant type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-36

Supporting properties and methods in

custom variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37

Using TInvokeableVariantType . . . . . . 4-37

Using TPublishableVariantType. . . . . . 4-39

Working with strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39

Character types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39

String types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-40

Short strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-40

Long strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-41

WideString. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-41

PChar types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-42

OpenString . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-42

Runtime library string handling routines . . 4-42

Wide character routines . . . . . . . . . . 4-43

Commonly used long string routines. . . 4-43

Declaring and initializing strings . . . . . . . 4-46

Mixing and converting string types . . . . . 4-47

String to PChar conversions. . . . . . . . . . 4-47

String dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-47

Returning a PChar local variable . . . . . 4-48

Passing a local variable as a PChar . . . 4-48

Compiler directives for strings. . . . . . . . 4-49

Strings and characters: related topics . . . . 4-50

Working with files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50

Manipulating files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50

Deleting a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50

Finding a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-51

Renaming a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-52

File date-time routines . . . . . . . . . . 4-52

Copying a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-53

File types with file I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-53

Using file streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-54

Creating and opening files . . . . . . . . 4-54

Using the file handle . . . . . . . . . . . 4-55

Reading and writing to files . . . . . . . 4-55

Reading and writing strings . . . . . . . 4-56

Seeking a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56

File position and size . . . . . . . . . . . 4-57

Copying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-57

Converting measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-58

Performing conversions . . . . . . . . . . . 4-58

Performing simple conversions . . . . . 4-58

Performing complex conversions . . . . 4-58

Adding new measurement types . . . . . . 4-59

Creating a simple conversion family

and adding units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-59

Using a conversion function . . . . . . . 4-60

Using a class to manage

conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-62

Defining data types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64

Chapter 5

Building applications, components,

and libraries 5-1

Creating applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

GUI applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

User interface models . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

SDI applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

MDI applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Setting IDE, project, and compilation

options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Programming templates . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Console applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Service applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Service threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Service name properties. . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Debugging services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Creating packages and DLLs . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

When to use packages and DLLs . . . . . . . 5-9

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