Creating Components

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A component can be almost any program element that you want to manipulate at design time. Creating a component means deriving a new class from an existing one. You can derive a new component in several ways:

The following table summarizes the different kinds of components and the classes you use as starting points for each.

Component creation starting points :

To do this Start with this type

Modify an existing component

Any existing component, such as TButton or TListBox, or an abstract component type, such as TCustomListBox

Create a windowed control

TWinControl

Create a graphic control

TGraphicControl

Subclassing a control

Any Windows control

Create a nonvisual component

TComponent



You can also derive classes that are not components and cannot be manipulated on a form, such as TRegIniFile and TFont.

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