Component Editors

Component editors extend the design-time behavior of your components by allowing you to add items to the local menu associated with a particular component and by allowing you to change the default action when a component is double-clicked in the Form Designer. You might already be familiar with component editors without knowing it if you've ever used the fields editor provided with the TTable, TQuery, and TStoredProc components.

TComponentEditor

You might not be aware of this, but a different component editor is created for each component that's selected in the Form Designer. The type of component editor created depends on the component's type, although all component editors descend from TComponentEditor. This class is defined ...

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