How to create custom controls using TUniFrame and TUniContainerPanel?

[davidizadar]

Hi, everyone,

 

In standard Delphi VCL for the desktop it is possible to create new VCL visual components the easy way of the hard way.

• The hard way is to create everything in code and hope that it will render correctly later. You design it first and export the design to code.
• The easy way is to keep always everything as a RAD design. You can do that by using TFrame and converting it to a control (exposing the internal properties or hiding them), or by embedding the TFrame in the control.

I'll like to use the same "easy option" with uniGUI, but I need to encapsulate the frame so that the only published and visible properties come from the control.

It looks like inheriting from TUniContainerPanel could be a solution.

 

If that is correct, where can I find some demo code for testing it?

 

I'm interested in providing design time support for that new component, like activating a database connection and showing a live grid.

 

Thanks,

 

David Izada Rodriguez

 

[sobakava]

I have done it recently. I have created custom TUniFrame based compound components. I'll upload a tutorial about it soon.

[ganzqgy]

Waiting for you.

[sobakava]

there you go:

 

http://forums.unigui.com/index.php?/topic/5982-tutorial-creating-custom-compound-components-for-unigui/