Re: D2006 Object inspector component

DoctorC wrote:
> Rob Kennedy pisze:
>> Which part are you having trouble with?
>>
>> You might have to write a lot of code. That's surely what Borland did.
> 
> That's why I'm asking here if there is anything ready to use. My program

> is already big enough and I would like to avoid adding work by myself :)

Oh. You said you knew there were lots of Object Inspector-like controls 
out there already that didn't meet your needs, so I thought you were 
rejecting them in favor of writing your own, and you wanted to know how. 
The answer, of course, is, "Start typing."

Which version of Delphi do you have? Delphi 2005 introduced a component 
or two that behave like the Object Inspector. It might need custom code 
to make it look just like the IDE control, and I don't think it was 
quite trivial to populate the list, but there it is.

> Anyway I like the look of the inspector: categories on a full line with 
> different color and expandable/collapsable values underneath on 2 
> columns. I will display my own categories and values, not connected to 
> component properties.
> What is the base component? My candidates are treeview and grid, but I 
> tried also with listview. It looks like a lot of code to adapt them to 
> Object inspector

The base component is probably TCustomControl. It has a window handle 
(so it can receive keyboard and mouse events) and it has a canvas (so 
you can paint to it).

-- 
Rob