Have you tried the TDockTabSet component? You can find a tutorial on its use here: http://bdn1.borland.com/article/0,1410,33446,00.html
Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Meek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:47 AM Subject: Looking for new technique in CodeGear D2007 under Vista Ultima | Hi all, | Man did we have a nasty north-eastern Sunday and Monday here in | Pa! Ten inches of snow, no cable, internet, or electric in most places | for close to 48 hrs., and wind so high that it knocked over a tree near | my place that had been there for more than 200 years...as well as taking | the electric service right off the side of my neighbor's house! | Anyway.... | | Before I changed over to CodeGear 2007, which I really like and | believe will put them on the map the way Borland should have done long | ago, and installed it on Vista, which I believe will be okay once they | work all the glitches out, I was working on an XP/D2005 application that | made use of a Form split into two sides via a Raize TSplitter with a | listbox on the left and a Listview on the right. | Depending upon the user option selected, this form might appear | at startup or not, but in either case, the listbox would alphabetically | display a list of user defined categories, each one allowing for | sub-categories, making it appear much like a file-manager's directory | panel. When a category was finally selected, the listview would then | display all the user defined applications, files, connections, | favorites, etc, no matter where they may actually reside on the system | and/or network, via shortcut versions of their actual icons along with | auto-displaying names that again the user would define. When one of | these shortcuts were double-clicked, it's target would be opened as per | default or edited settings. | This was the main part of this app which I'd been using in | various versions since Win98, and had also put out in a business-orient | version to some local companies for trials. It was my intention to put | it out as shareware until I heard Vista was going to include a category | handling system of its own! So I waited to see what it actually would | be like, and luckily I don't believe it comes anywhere near what my app | can provide, as the Targeting part I described is merely a hint of what | MY shortcut icons can provide! | Anyway, I'm getting ready to do a final and complete re-write | from scratch due to the fact my code on my system was eaten by a virus | while I was away with my system left on and my security subscriptions | ran out. That was bad enough, but then I found that even with new | drivers, Vista will not correctly read the backups I had on CD-RW! | And as the visual system for this app as I described it is | actually getting a bit dated, I figured this would be the best time to | change things around a bit. And what I'd REALLY like this part of the | interface to look like, is much as one of the side panels in CodeGear, | where a panel can slide out from the left or right edge of the screen | and lock there all the time if wanted. It would have the same type of | controls the IDE side panels have which allow the user control over it's | appearance. | I've looked thru all the components and MSDN but haven't found | anything like what I'm looking for except as used as a component on a | form. It's very possible I missed something along the way, but the only | thing I've been able to come up with is a hack using a back form...and | that doesn't look or behave exactly the way I would like either! | | So if anyone has an idea that might work, please let me know. | Thanx in advance! | | from Robert Meek dba "Tangentals Design" | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Freelance Windows Programming for XP and Vista | Also proud to be a Moderator of the "Delphi-List" at elists.org | | "Reality cannot be explained...only enjoyed or endured as your current | perspective allows!" | | | _______________________________________________ | Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] | http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi | _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
