Hello Mike I currently develope application that uses TPageControl as some kind of container. I use ordinary TForm to be displayed on a tabsheet: simply create a form without window caption, create a new tabsheet, assing tabsheet to form.parent and make the form visible. Closing the form destroy tabsheet.
If you need more guidance - just let me know. Marcin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bowers, Michael P. ISD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Borland's Delphi Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:11 PM Subject: Dynamically loading TTabSheets into a TPageControl from externalmodules? >I am planning an application in Delphi 7 and for argument's sake, let's > say that it has a TPageControl in it. I would like each individual > TTabSheet to be dynamically loaded because we will be adding to the > application over time. The actual application I am writing right now > will just be a container for presentation and to give it presence in the > system tray. > > For instance, one may be a status page, one may be a form to fill out > for help, a couple might be for admin access to some system, etc. Each > sheet is loaded as a different module (both form and executable code to > support it). We will be adding these sheets over time so I need to be > able to load these items dynamically and conditionally. Also, being > able to add these over time will mean that every time I need to add to > or change the application I don't need to redeploy the whole thing, the > application can pull in modules as they're added and put on an app > server or distribution share -- we have almost 15,000 machines now, and > project about 22,000 in a couple years, so deployment is always a > problem around here. > > I know that this can be accomplished with packages and they will share a > TApplication object, but using packages assumes I'll be writing all > these items in the same language and compiler version so the RTTI will > match. In theory, I'd like to be able to use Delphi 2007 instead of > Delphi 7, or even VC++ or something else to load into the app. I might > not be the only one writing items for this, so I can't enforce a > development environment on other teams. > > So... what are my choices? Ideally I'd like to define a spec for .DLLs > so they can be written in any language, but is that even possible to > link them in in that way? Would it be clean, anyway? How can I handle > intercommunication between items using .DLLs? Or should I just stick to > packages written under one version of Delphi? Perhaps there is a > solution using some sort of scripting component like Python4Delphi so I > can just drop in scripts? > > Has anybody done anything like this before? > > Thanks, > Mike > > ---- > Michael Bowers, Lead Client Management Analyst > Client Management, Desktop Solutions, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System > Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph: 713/448-6306 Failure is not an option. It > Pg: 713/605-8989 x21934 comes bundled with Microsoft products. > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
