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Extending the IDE (Overview)
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The IDE supports several types of plugins:
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Components
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These are the items in the component palette. For a example TButton can be
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used to create Buttons.
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Component Editors
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Component editors are used when you double click on a component in the
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designer or to add some extra items to the popup menu of the designer, when
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you right click on a component.
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Property Editors
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These are used by the rows in the object inspector.
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Experts
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These are all other types.
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There are two possibilities to add your own plugins to Lazarus:
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1. Write a package, install it and register your plugins in the 'Register'
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procedure of a unit.
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2. Extend the lazarus code, and send your cvs diff to the lazarus mailing list.
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Writing components:
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ToDo
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Hint: Create a new component via the package editor.
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Writing component editors:
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ToDo
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Hint: see componenteditors.pas for examples
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Writing property editors
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ToDo
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Hint: see propedits.pp for examples
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Register event handlers
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There are several events in the IDE, for which plugins can add their own
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handlers.
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In propedits.pp there is a GlobalDesignHook object, which maintains several
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events for designing. Each event calls a list of handlers. The default handlers
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are added by the IDE. You can add your own handlers with the AddHandlerXXX and
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RemoveHandlerXXX methods. They will be called before the default handlers.
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Examples:
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Adding your handler (this is normally done in the constructor of your object):
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GlobalDesignHook.AddHandlerComponentAdded(@YourOnComponentAdded);
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Removing your handler:
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GlobalDesignHook.RemoveHandlerComponentAdded(@YourOnComponentAdded);
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You can remove all handlers at once. For example, it is a good idea to add
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this line in the destructor of object:
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GlobalDesignHook.RemoveAllHandlersForObject(Self);
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The handlers of GlobalDesignHook:
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// lookup root
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ChangeLookupRoot
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Called when the LookupRoot changed.
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The LookupRoot is the owner object of the currently selected components.
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Normally this is a TForm.
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// methods
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CreateMethod
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GetMethodName
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GetMethods
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MethodExists
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RenameMethod
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ShowMethod
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Called
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MethodFromAncestor
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ChainCall
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// components
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GetComponent
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GetComponentName
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GetComponentNames
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GetRootClassName
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ComponentRenamed
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Called when a component was renamed
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ComponentAdded
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Called when a new component was added to the LookupRoot
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ComponentDeleting
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Called before a component is freed.
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DeleteComponent
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Called by the IDE to delete a component.
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GetSelectedComponents
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Get the current selection of components.
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// persistent objects
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GetObject
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GetObjectName
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GetObjectNames
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// modifing
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Modified
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Revert
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RefreshPropertyValues
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