Scrolling Window Control Scrolling Window Control: A window control with scroll bars Exception in Scroll Bar Exception class for Scroll Bar Control Scroll Bar Control Scroll Bar: Scroll Bar control for adding to windows. Can be horizontal or vertical. Scroll Box Scroll Box: A box with scroll bars Custom Frame Custom Frame: The base type for Frame Frame Frame - a container for all the other components on a form, or for a group of components within a form IDesigner IDesigner Custom Form Custom Form - the base type for FORM Form Form - the fundamental visual object that appears in every GUI application Hint Window Hint Window - the popup box containing helpful information that appears when the mouse pointer hovers over an object Screen Screen - the visible area Application Application - the whole current program, described as an object.
Includes useful function MessageBox, a simple dialog Message Box Message Box: a useful function to display a message.
The function returns an integer value corresponding to the button that was pressed; its value can be determined by reference to the constants [IDOK..IDHELP]
It can be invoked like a procedure call (ie as a 'MessageBox()' statement rather than as a 'Variable := MessageBox()' function call) Result Result: integer value returned by the function to signify which box was selected Text Text: the string that is displayed as a prompt or instruction in the Box; Caption Caption: the string label at the top of the message box; Flags Flags: longint - an integer constructed by adding together various constants to define the contents and behaviour of the box, for example
MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE + MR_ICONQUESTION will cause the application to display a query (?) icon in a box with three buttons:
ABORT RETRY IGNORE. Application Properties Application Properties: The properties of the current application Data Module Data Module: for interfacing to the database