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Creating an About Box Plug-in


In the previous article we saw how to call a routine from a package as well as how to dynamically load a package into the main application. In this second part of a two-part article explaining plug-ins, we are going to look at how to create a real world plug-in.

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By: Leidago
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November 20, 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. · Creating an About Box Plug-in
  2. · Continuing with our example
  3. · Creating a package
  4. · Adding some more code

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Creating an About Box Plug-in - Continuing with our example
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Coming back to our example, create a new application and save it. Give it whatever name you want. Drop a tmenu component (available from the Standard tab) onto the form. Double click on the tmenu and add two menu items; the first is "File" and the second "Help." Then add a submenu to "help" called "About." 

Then on the Delphi toolbar, select View|Project Manager. Select "project1.exe" or whatever name you used to save the project, then select options, then the "Packages" tab. In the run-time packages section select "Built with run-time packages" and click OK.

 Save everything and close the application. Your form should look something like this:


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