How to show a control as a form?

[Glenn9999]

I've been researching this and have to think there's a way to do this, but I'm not finding an example... Anyhow, how do you display a control by itself and retrieve the data off of it? Like be able to click on something and then popup a TEdit control?

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[whosrdaddy]

you mean like your own custom control?
or creating a control at runtime?

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[DelphiAaron]

sptbx does it.
in his popupmenu you can put lables, edits, combos etc..

http://www.silverpointdevelopment.com/sptbxlib/index.htm

Aaron

 

[Glenn9999]

or creating a control at runtime?

Just creating the control to show in and of itself. What I'm trying to do is put a TTrackBar beside a PopupMenu, but any of the subordinate controls will work for the purpose.

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[DjangMan]

How about a form with no frame, titlebar, etc?

 

[djjd47130]

That's what I've always done, put it virtually in its own form. I've wrapped controls into a component of their own which are free-laying on the screen, and a parent form (for moving, resizing, etc.). I even made a component set for most of the common controls only which can be released from the form and placed anywhere on the screen, then since they're still linked to the master parent form, when I move or minimize that the controls can automatically go with it, etc. It's also fun to play with transparent background colors and alpha blend, and make misc. shaped forms for these controls. Unfortunately this is part of a large component set of mine I don't simply hand out. I may extract one of my examples and post it here for you, I need to split the components up first though, which will be a bit of work (dependencies with other common units of mine).