[fpc-pascal] fpGUI - UI Designer - place own components ?

[Tomas Hajny]

The original poster is not subscribed to the list (although he hasn't
mentioned it in his post), so I included him in Cc: now.

Tomas



On Fri, March 6, 2015 11:26, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2015-03-05 08:42, Peter Krawies wrote:
>>   how to make descendants from the fpGUI visual components
>
> To create new widgets/components, pick a base component that is close to
> what you need, or descend from TfpgWidget (in the fpg_widget.pas unit).
>
>
>>   and then place my own derived Components
>>   into the component palette of the UI Designer.
>
> In the UI Designer project all widgets that appear on the component
> palette is registered in the vfdwidgets.pas unit in the
> RegisterWidgets() procedure. Looking at the existing ones the code
> should be self explanatory.
>
> Alternatively (in a pinch) you can simply use the TOtherWidget at the
> end of the component palette. When you drop that on your form it will
> prompt you for the actual Widget Class to use. You will not see your
> actual widget in the designer form - only a green rectangle, but when
> you compile and run your app, it should appear as it should. When you
> use TOtherWidget, you use the "Unknown Lines" memo in the Object
> Inspector to specify any property values.
>
> You can also integrate the fpGUI UI Designer into Lazarus, MSEide or any
> other programmer editor via their External Tools functionality.
>
> For quicker and more fpGUI specific support, may I suggest you use the
> official fpGUI support newsgroup to post questions. You can use a
> dedicated NNTP news client, or the web interface. Here is a URL to give
> you all the details.
>
>   http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/support.shtml
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -