Miscellaneous Components

The Miscellaneous Components Win32 package contains a number of handy components that can be used in your Delphi applications.  If you download this package, you must also download my Low Level Utilities and my Image Types package.  Please note that this is for Win32 Delphi 2005 projects only.

Last updated - 10th August 2005

•  Drop a TStandardSystemMenu on your application's main form.  It's Window Menu will now have the standard options - Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close, rather than the subset provided by normal Delphi applications.
  
  
• Drop a TRunOnce component on your main form, and you will only be able to run a single instance of your application on a computer at any one time.  But that's not all!  It's OnOtherInstance event gets called if another instance tries to start, passing the command line parameters from the second instance.
  
  
• Drop a TPersistentPosition on your main form, and your application will run at it's previous position.  Supports Minimize and Maximized states, too.
  
  
• TNTAboutBox provides a standard-look About Box.  Drop one on a form, and call it's Execute method.
  
  
• THyperlinkButton allows you to put a hyperlink on a form.
  
  
• TMessageDisplay displays messages containing text, graphics and components
  
  
• TTrayIcon displays an icon in the system tray and allows you to use it to control your program
  
  
• TExSplitter is derived from the standard TCustomSplitter but provides mimimize and restore functions
  
  
• TRichEdit2 is derived from TRichEdit but provides AutoURLDetect and AutoURLExecute properties.
  
  
• TThemedScrollBox is derived from TScrollBox but supports Themes on XP systems
  
  
• TExRichEdit is a new rich edit control designed to work with all versions of the Microsoft rich edit control.
  
• TRegistryPersistentOptions & TIniFilePersistentOptions are components designed to make storing your programs options easy.
  
  
• TNewsRichEdit is a new rich edit control designed to format characters in newsreaders
  
  
• TSpellChecker is an interface between TExRichEdit and the ISpell spell checker.
  
• TSplitterPanel is a panel with an optional splitter at each edge.
  
• TFileCopier is a component that allows you to reliably copy groups of files.