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- THIS IS COMPED VERSION 1.1. This upgrade fixes a bug found by Wm David Parker
- that caused an active edit cell to be displayed in the property name cell of
- the inspector instead of the property value cell. David also suggested I
- provide a means to abort an edit change via the escape key, I did this as
- well. Other improvements are:
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- 1. The enter key can be used to initialize an edit session.
- 2. The up/down arrow keys can be used to finish an edit session
- and move to the next/previous cell (with certain restrictions).
- 3. TTable and TDataSet components can now be edited. I plan
- later to add database designers, etc.
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- CompEd is a slightly stripped down version of an object inspector/editor
- I wrote for a large application I am doing at work. It provides editing
- capabilities for all simple type properties and many Class type properties,
- such as TFont, TStrings, TIcon,TBitmap, etc. For other class type properties
- associated with a component, if it's reference is not Nil and the class has
- published properties, CompEd will instantiate another mini object inspector
- to edit it's properties. Class properties that are nil (not editable) will be
- shown with *'s around the class name. I will probably in a later version create
- the object when the user desires to edit these properties.
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- There are two reasons I am putting this in the public domain. First, I have
- found some very good stuff browsing around and I thought it was time I put
- something back.
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- Second, when I first started the project I am working on now, I sort of searched
- around for tools, code, etc. I could get for free or purchase to make my job
- and others in my groups life a little easier. With respect to an Object Inspector,
- I found three samples. None included source code. I emailed two of them offering
- money for the code. One never responded and the other said he was on to other
- stuff and it shouldn't be that hard if I knew anything about OOP. Well, excuse me,
- I would have bought the stuff from you to save me some time! The third one keeps
- putting out these little tid-bits at a time like we are all waiting for the pope
- to make a papal decree.
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- I hope someone will find this useful. I will be grateful for any suggestions as to
- what I might have done different and/or any improvements. I will be doubly grateful
- if someone would send me some code to get me started on the next phase of this project,
- a run tim form editor that will save dfms and read them back in. I will be posting
- stuff from time to time that utilizes windows or delphi capabitilies noone else seems
- to be doing or at least giving up for free.
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- I do ask that if you redistribute this stuff that you include this readme file
- with it.
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- David Spies
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- WORK : davidsp@eastsoft.com
- HOME : DSPIES@onecom.com
- CS : 70401,643
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