Delphi 6 for Windows / Quickstart

Quick Start......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
Finding information......Page 5
F1 Help......Page 6
Printed documentation......Page 7
Typographic conventions......Page 8
The IDE......Page 9
The menus and toolbars......Page 10
The Component Palette, Form Designer, and Object Inspector......Page 11
The Object TreeView......Page 12
The Object Repository......Page 13
The Code Editor......Page 14
The Diagram page......Page 17
Viewing form code......Page 18
The Code Explorer......Page 19
The Project Manager......Page 20
To-do lists......Page 21
Creating a project......Page 23
Placing components on a form......Page 24
Setting component properties......Page 25
Using the VCL and CLX libraries......Page 27
Compiling and debugging projects......Page 28
Types of projects......Page 30
Web server applications......Page 31
Database applications......Page 32
Custom components......Page 33
COM and ActiveX......Page 34
Starting a new application......Page 35
Setting property values......Page 36
Adding components to the form......Page 37
Adding support for a menu and a toolbar......Page 40
Adding actions to the action manager......Page 41
Adding standard actions to the action manager......Page 43
Adding images to the image list......Page 44
Adding a menu......Page 47
Adding a toolbar......Page 48
Clearing the text area (optional)......Page 49
Creating an event handler for the New command......Page 50
Creating an event handler for the Open command......Page 52
Creating an event handler for the Save command......Page 53
Creating an event handler for the Save As command......Page 54
Creating an event handler for the Help Contents command......Page 56
Creating an event handler for the Help Index command......Page 57
Creating an About box......Page 58
Completing your application......Page 60
Arranging menus and toolbars......Page 63
Docking tool windows......Page 64
Saving desktop layouts......Page 66
Arranging the Component palette......Page 67
Creating component templates......Page 68
Installing component packages......Page 69
Specifying project and form templates as the default......Page 71
Adding templates to the Object Repository......Page 72
Customizing the Form Designer......Page 73
Customizing the Code Explorer......Page 74
Index......Page 75