readme.txt

Delphi, typed list generator code snippled, wonderfull delphi sample code

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Typed lists generator - Version 1.0
Copyright (C) 1999 by Dr. Peter Below
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This program and its source code is donated to the public
domain. You may use it as is or use parts of the code in 
your own projects but you may NOT sell the program as is or
in only marginally modified form. You may distribute this
program and its source freely as long as all parts
(including this text file) are distributed together, preferrably
as the original ZIP archive. 

Neither the program nor the source carries any warranties whatsoever,
use at your own risk.
I have done my best to weed out the bugs and am confident that the
program itself works as intended. However, the generated list units
have not been tested thoroughly for all possible configurations 
possible since i have as yet only required a small subset of the 
available options.

If you want to open the gentypedlists project on your system you need
to install the textcontainer and expanel components first, since they
are used on the main form. If you fail do to so you will get errors
when opening the project. The code has been developed and compiled with
Delphi 4.03. However, it does not use any D4-specific features and should
compile on earlier versions without problems, if you ignore the "property 
not found" errors on opening the project in the IDE. This has not
been tested, however.

Files in this ZIP archive:
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Abstracttypedlist.pas	a unit containing the base class for all typed
			list classes. The generated units will require
			this unit, place it in a directory on your
			library search path.
expanel.pas		a simple TPanel derivative used by the main form.
			It provides some additional properties to specify
			spacing around client-aligned controls and 
			eliminates the automatic design-time caption.
GenTypedLists.dpr	The project file
GenTypedLists1.PAS	The main (and only) unit of the project
GenTypedLists1.DFM	The main form resource
GenTypedLists.EXE	The compiled program. I decided to included it
			despite the serious size increase of the archive
			for the benefit of people with older Delphi versions,
			who may be unable to build the project without 
			problems.
GenTypedLists.HLP	The applications helpfile. Place it into the apps
			directory.
readme.txt		This file.
Textcontainer.pas	A simple nonvisual component used by the main form.
			It has a Lines property that can be used to store 
			text at design-time via the default TStrings 
			property editor. The program uses it to store
			the default unit template.
typelist_template.pas	The default template mentioned above. This is not a
			compilable unit since it contains numerous placeholders
			the list generator will replace to produce a compilable
			unit. You do not need this file to run the generator
			but you may want to customize it and use it as an 
			alternative template.