From fc1071e18fd00416773fb83d32627b03d8eb29ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mattias Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:07:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added comments git-svn-id: trunk@21699 - --- examples/designnonlcl/README.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/designnonlcl/README.txt b/examples/designnonlcl/README.txt index 290b8c81da..f5afb8e756 100644 --- a/examples/designnonlcl/README.txt +++ b/examples/designnonlcl/README.txt @@ -1,2 +1,14 @@ This package is an example how to to use the lazarus IDE form designer to design non LCL widgets. + +The unit mywidgetset.pas contains the class TMyWidget which is a TComponent +and has Left, Top, Width, Height and Parent to define a simple widgetset. +It does not contain any paint routines, so you can not do anything useful with +this widgetset. + +The unit mywidgetdesigner.pas contains the designer mediator TMyWidgetMediator +which is registered in the Register procedure: + FormEditingHook.RegisterDesignerMediator(TMyWidgetMediator); +When the package is installed in the IDE, the mediator allows to design +TMyWidget components visually. Without the mediator the IDE would show them as +icons, like TOpenDialog or TDataSource.