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Quick Start

Borland ®

C++Builder ™ 6

for Windows ™

Borland Software Corporation

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Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction 1-1

What is C++Builder? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Registering C++Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Finding information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

F1 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Printed documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Developer support services and

Web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Typographic conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Database applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

BDE Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

SQL Explorer (Database

Explorer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Database Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Data Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Custom components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

DLLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

COM and ActiveX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Type libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Chapter 4

Creating a text editor—a tutorial 4-1

Starting a new application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Setting property values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Adding components to the form . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Adding support for a menu and

a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Action Manager editor and

Action List editor differences. . . . . . . . . 4-6

Adding menu and toolbar images

(Enterprise and Professional). . . . . . . . . 4-7

Adding actions to the Action Manager

(Enterprise and Professional). . . . . . . . . 4-8

Adding standard actions (Enterprise

and Professional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

Adding a menu (Enterprise

and Professional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Adding a toolbar (Enterprise

and Professional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Adding an image list and images

(Personal edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Adding actions to the action list

(Personal edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Adding standard actions to the action

list (Personal edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Adding a menu (Personal edition) . . . . . 4-18

Adding a toolbar (Personal edition). . . . . 4-20

Clearing the text area (all editions) . . . . . . . 4-22

Writing event handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22

Creating an event handler for the

New command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Creating an event handler for the

Open command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-25

Creating an event handler for the

Save command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27

Chapter 2

A tour of the environment 2-1

Starting C++Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

The IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

The menus and toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

The Component Palette, Form Designer,

and Object Inspector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

The Object TreeView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

The Object Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

The Code Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Code Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Code Browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

The Diagram page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Viewing form code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

The ClassExplorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

The Project Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

To-do lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Chapter 3

Programming with C++Builder 3-1

Creating a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Adding data modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Building the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Placing components on a form . . . . . . . . 3-2

Setting component properties. . . . . . . . . 3-4

Writing code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Writing event handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Using the VCL and CLX libraries. . . . . . . 3-6

Compiling and debugging projects . . . . . . . 3-7

Deploying applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Internationalizing applications . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Types of projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

CLX applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

Web server applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

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Creating an event handler for the

Save As command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27

Creating a Help file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29

Creating an event handler for the

Help Contents command . . . . . . . . . . 4-30

Creating an event handler for the

Help Index command . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30

Creating an About box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31

Completing your application . . . . . . . . . . . 4-33

Writing the Update Now! command

event handler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

Writing the Exit command event

handler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

Writing the FormClose event

handler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14

Chapter 6

Customizing the desktop 6-1

Organizing your work area . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Arranging menus and toolbars . . . . . . . . 6-1

Docking tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Saving desktop layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Customizing the Component palette . . . . . . . 6-5

Arranging the Component palette. . . . . . . 6-5

Creating component templates . . . . . . . . 6-5

Installing component packages . . . . . . . . 6-6

Using frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Adding ActiveX controls . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Setting project options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Setting default project options . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Specifying project and form templates

as the default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Adding templates to the Object

Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Setting tool preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10

Customizing the Form Designer. . . . . . . 6-10

Customizing the Code Editor . . . . . . . . 6-11

Chapter 5

Creating a CLX database

application—atutorial 5-1

Overview of database architecture . . . . . . . . 5-1

Creating a new CLX application . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Setting up data access components . . . . . . . 5-2

Setting up the database connection. . . . . . 5-3

Setting up the unidirectional dataset . . . . . 5-5

Setting up the provider, client dataset,

and data source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Designing the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Creating the grid and navigation

bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Adding support for a menu . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Adding a menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Adding a button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11

Displaying a title and an image . . . . . . . . . 5-11

Writing an event handler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

Index

I-1

Chapter1

Introduction

This Quick Start provides an overview of the C++Builder development environment

to get you started using the product right away. It also tells you where to look for

details about the tools and features available in C++Builder.

Chapter 2, “A tour of the environment” describes the main tools on the C++Builder

desktop, or integrated desktop environment (IDE). Chapter 3, “Programming with

C++Builder” explains how you use some of these tools to create an application.

Chapter 4, “Creating a text editor—a tutorial” takes you step by step through a

tutorial to write a program for a text editor. Chapter 5, “Creating a CLX database

application—a tutorial” walks you through the creation of a database application.

Chapter 6, “Customizing the desktop” describes how you can customize the

C++Builder IDE for your development needs.

What is C++Builder?

C++Builder is an object-oriented, visual programming environment for rapid

application development (RAD). Using C++Builder, you can create highly efficient

applications for Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft

Windows 98 with a minimum of manual coding. C++Builder provides all the tools

you need to develop, test, and deploy applications, including a large library of

reusable components, a suite of design tools, application and form templates, and

programming wizards.

Introduction 1-1

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