How To Write Lazarus Component/it

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Introduzione

Questa è una guida di base su come costruire componenti. È stata testata su Lazarus 0.9.30 eseguito in Windows 7.

Passo 1: Creare il Package

• Nel menu di Lazarus IDE, click su Package > Nuovo Package per eseguire il Package Manager.

• Apparirà la finestra di dialog Salva file. Scegli una cartella e un nome e salva. Se l'IDE propone di utilizzare le minuscole per il nome file, premi 'OK'.

• Congratulazioni: hai appena creato il tuo primo Package!

Passo 2: Creare la Unit

Puoi creare una nuova unit o usare un file esistente.

Crea una Nuova Unit

• Usa il pulsante Aggiungi > Nuovo componente.

• Scegli un componente come TComboBox.
• Scegli customcontrol1.pas come mome file.
• Clicca OK.

unit CustomControl1;

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

interface

uses
  Classes, SysUtils, LResources, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs, StdCtrls;

type
  TCustomControl1 = class(TComboBox)
  private
    { Private declarations }
  protected
    { Protected declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  published
    { Published declarations }
  end;

procedure Register;

implementation

procedure Register;
begin
  RegisterComponents('Standard',[TCustomControl1]);
end;

end.

• Installa il package cliccando il bottone 'install' in alto nel package editor.

• Quindi l'IDE chiederà se si vuole che venga fatto il rebuild dell'IDE. Cliccare yes.

• Riavviato Lazarus potrete vedere il vostro nuovo componente nella component palette. Congratulazioni: Avete appena installato il vostro primo package con il vostro primo componente.

Nota: Se non vedete il vostro nuovo componente nella palette dei componenti, molto probabilmente state eseguendo una versione non ricompilata di Lazarus. Potete impostare dove Lazarus effettua il build in: Strumenti -> Opzioni -> File -> Cartella di Lazarus. Invece di eseguire lazarus direttamente, potete anche usare startlazarus, che esegue lazarus più recentemente compilato, per esempio l'eseguibile di lazarus nella cartella ~/.lazarus, se non avete i diritti di scrittura nella cartella in cui è installato lazarus.

Aggiungi una Unit esistente

Se avete già una unit potete aggiungerla al package:

• Fate Click sul pulsante Aggiungi, andate sul tab Aggiungi File. Cliccato il pulsante Esplora, cercate il vostro file. Fate Click su Aggiungi file al pacchetto. Se il gestore pacchetti lamenta che la unit non è nella cartella, accettate di aggiungere la directory al percorso nel unit path.
• Fate Click ancora su Aggiungi , andate sul tab Aggiungi File e cercate il file .lrs, quindi fate click su OK (Vedete il Passo 3 per creare il file dell'icona ).
• Fate Click di nuovo su Aggiungi, andate sul tab Nuovo requisito, selezionate LCL in Nome pacchetto e fate click su OK.

Il risultato finale dovrebbe assomigliare a questo:

• Click on under the Files tree in the Package Manager. In the File Properties, make sure Register unit is checked.
• Click the Options button. Select the IDE Integration tab. At the Package Type make sure Designtime and Runtime is selected.
• Click the Compile button to check to see if the files compile without errors.
• Click the Install button, Lazarus will rebuild and restart automatically.

The component is created and ready to be used:

Passo 3: Creare Icone Per Il Package

La dimensione del file PNG dovrebbe essere 24x24. Il formato icona utilizzato è .lrs.

Usa Lazarus Image Editor

Puoi usare Lazarus Image Editor per creare le icons nel formato .lrs.

Usa lazres

Potresti aver bisogno di compilare lazres al primo utilizzo. Semplicemente apri lazres.lpi nell'IDE e scegli nel menu run > build.

Crea file lrs

Per creare il file lrs esegui:

~/lazarus/tools/lazres samplepackage.lrs TMyCom.png

Dove samplepackage è il nome del tuo package e TMyCom è il nome del tuo componente.

You can add more than one image to the lrs file by appending the image filename at the end. Eg. ~/lazarus/tools/lazres samplepackage.lrs TMyCom.png TMyOtherCom.png ...

Sample

Following is a sample of the resulting samplepackage.lrs file.

LazarusResources.Add('TMyCom','PNG',[
  #137'PNG'#13#10#26#10#0#0#0#13'IHDR'#0#0#0#24#0#0#0#24#8#2#0#0#0'o'#21#170#175
  +#0#0#0#4'gAMA'#0#0#177#143#11#252'a'#5#0#0#0'|IDAT8O'#237#212#209#10#192' '#8
  +#5'P'#247#231#251's'#215#138#133#164#166'\'#220#195'`'#209'c'#157'L'#173#131
  +#153#169'd4'#168'dP'#137'r_'#235'5'#136'@Zmk'#16'd9'#144#176#232#164'1'#247
  +'I'#8#160'IL'#206'C'#179#144#12#199#140'.'#134#244#141'~'#168#247#209'S~;'#29
  +'V+'#196#201'^'#10#15#150'?'#255#18#227#206'NZ>42'#181#159#226#144#15'@'#201
  +#148#168'e'#224'7f<@4'#130'u_YD'#23#213#131#134'Q]'#158#188#135#0#0#0#0'IEND'
  +#174'B`'#130
]);

Recompiling Packages

You need to rebuild the package everytime you make changes to the mycom.pas file. To rebuild the package, open the samplepackage.lpk file in the Package Manager and click the Install button.

Removing Packages

• To remove installed components, on the IDE menu, click Package > Configure installed packages. The following image shows the Installed Packages tool.

• Select the package you want to uninstall and click Uninstall selection.

If something goes wrong with a package (e.g. package directory is deleted without first uninstalling it), Lazarus may not allow you to uninstall packages. To fix the problem, at the IDE menu click Tools > Build Lazarus. Lazarus will rebuild all packages and restart. You should now be able to uninstall problematic packages.

Enhancing mycom.pas

• The codes in mycom.pas above gives you the basics on what you need to create a component. The following is an enhanced version with some tips on how to write procedures and events for components.
• The OnChange2 shows how to create events
• The OnSample shows how to create custom events
• MyText and MyText2 shows different ways to write properties.
• You can use TComboBox instead of TCustomComboBox as the base class, which publishes all properties as TComboBox.
• If TCustomComboBox is used as the base class, you'll notice a lot of properties and events will be missing at the Object Inspector in the IDE. To add those properties and events just copy and paste the properties as listed below // properties from TComboBox. These list of properties can be got from the TComboBox declaration in the StdCtrls unit. Omit any property which you want to handle yourself.

unit mycom;

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

interface

uses
  Classes, SysUtils, StdCtrls, Forms, Dialogs,
  LCLType,LCLIntf,lresources,LCLProc;

type

  TSampleEvent = procedure(MyText: String) of Object;

  TMyCom = class (TCustomComboBox)
  private
    FMyText: String;
    FOnChange2: TNotifyEvent;
    FOnSample: TSampleEvent;
  public
    constructor Create(TheOwner: TComponent); override;
    procedure CreateWnd; override;
    procedure Change; override;
  protected
    function GetMyText2: String;
    procedure SetMyText2(MyText: String);
  published
    property MyText: String read FMyText write FMyText;
    property MyText2: String read GetMyText2 write SetMyText2;
    property OnChange2: TNotifyEvent read FOnChange2 write FOnChange2;
    property OnSample: TSampleEvent read FOnSample write FOnSample;
    
    // properties from TComboBox
    property Align;
    property Anchors;
    property ArrowKeysTraverseList;
    property AutoComplete;
    property AutoCompleteText;
    property AutoDropDown;
    property AutoSelect;
    property AutoSize;
    property BidiMode;
    property BorderSpacing;
    property CharCase;
    property Color;
    property Ctl3D;
    property Constraints;
    property DragCursor;
    property DragMode;
    property DropDownCount;
    property Enabled;
    property Font;
    property ItemHeight;
    property ItemIndex;
    property Items;
    property ItemWidth;
    property MaxLength;
    property OnChange;
    property OnChangeBounds;
    property OnClick;
    property OnCloseUp;
    property OnContextPopup;
    property OnDblClick;
    property OnDragDrop;
    property OnDragOver;
    property OnDrawItem;
    property OnEndDrag;
    property OnDropDown;
    property OnEditingDone;
    property OnEnter;
    property OnExit;
    property OnGetItems;
    property OnKeyDown;
    property OnKeyPress;
    property OnKeyUp;
    property OnMeasureItem;
    property OnMouseDown;
    property OnMouseMove;
    property OnMouseUp;
    property OnStartDrag;
    property OnSelect;
    property OnUTF8KeyPress;
    property ParentBidiMode;
    property ParentColor;
    property ParentCtl3D;
    property ParentFont;
    property ParentShowHint;
    property PopupMenu;
    property ReadOnly;
    property ShowHint;
    property Sorted;
    property Style;
    property TabOrder;
    property TabStop;
    property Text;
    property Visible;    
  end;

procedure Register;

implementation

procedure Register;
begin
  RegisterComponents('Sample',[TMyCom]);
end;

constructor TMyCom.Create(TheOwner: TComponent);
begin
  inherited Create(TheOwner);
  Self.Style := csDropDownList;
end;

procedure TMyCom.CreateWnd;
begin
  inherited CreateWnd;
  Items.Assign(Screen.Fonts);
end;

procedure TMyCom.Change;
begin
  inherited;
  if Assigned(FOnChange2) then FOnChange2(Self);
  if Assigned(FOnSample) then FOnSample(FMyText);
end;

function TMyCom.GetMyText2: String;
begin
  Result:=FMyText;
end;

procedure TMyCom.SetMyText2(MyText: String);
begin
  FMyText:=MyText;
end;

initialization
  {$I samplepackage.lrs}

end.

Using embedded (visual) components

It's possible to use standard components embedded in your own components (look for example at TLabeledEdit or TButtonPanel). Let's say you want to create a custom panel with a TLabel on it. With the steps described above the base package and source files can be created. Now to add a TLabel to the component, do the following:

• Add a private attribute for the label component (FEmbeddedLabel: TLabel;).
• Add a published read-only property for the label component (property EmbeddedLabel: TLabel read FEmbeddedLabel;)
• Create the label in the component's (overridden) constructor (FEmbeddedLabel := TLabel.Create(self); )
• Set the parent of the component (FEmbeddedLabel.Parent := self;)
• If the component to be embedded is not a 'subcomponent' by default (like TBoundLabel, TPanelBitBtn etc.) then add the call to SetSubComponent. This is necessary for the IDE so it knows that it has to store the properties of the embedded component as well. TLabel is not a subcomponent by default so the call to the method must be added (FEmbeddedLabel.SetSubComponent(true);).

To sum it up you would get something like this (only the essential parts are shown):

TEnhancedPanel = class(TCustomControl)
private
  { The new attribute for the embedded label }
  FEmbeddedLabel: TLabel;
  
public
  { The constructor must be overriden so the label can be created }
  constructor Create(AOwner: TComponent); override;
  
published
  { Make the label visible in the IDE }
  property EmbeddedLabel: TLabel read FEmbeddedLabel;
end;

implementation

constructor TEnhancedPanel.Create(AOwner: TComponent);
begin
  inherited Create(AOwner);

  // Set default width and height
  with GetControlClassDefaultSize do
    SetInitialBounds(0, 0, CX, CY);

  // Add the embedded label
  FEmbeddedLabel := TLabel.Create(Self); // Add the embedded label
  FEmbeddedLabel.Parent := self;         // Show the label in the panel
  FEmbeddedLabel.SetSubComponent(true);  // Tell the IDE to store the modified properties
  FLabel.Name := 'EmbeddedLabel';        
  FLabel.Caption := 'Howdy World!';

  // Make sure the embedded label can not be selected/deleted within the IDE
  FLabel.ControlStyle := FLabel.ControlStyle - [csNoDesignSelectable];
  
  // Set other properties if necessary
  //...
  
end;

Using custom paint procedure

You can always subclass a component inside your program. For example, this implements a custom Paint procedure to a TLabel:

type
  TMyLabel = class(TLabel)
    public
      procedure Paint; override;
  end;
{...}
implementation
{...}
procedure TMyLabel.Paint;
begin
  // your code to implement Paint, for example
  Canvas.TextOut(0,0,Caption);
end;

Now you can create a MyLabel inside your program, at run time, with that overridden Paint procedure instead of the standard one.

For most components, and for most methods, it would be recommendable to call inherited procedure iniside it:

procedure TMyLabel.Paint;
begin

  inherited Paint;   /////////////////////

  // your code to implement Paint, for example
  Canvas.TextOut(0,0,Caption);
end;

But inherited behavior is not desirable in this case, since the second writing action would overlap the first (inherited) one.

Integrating the Component with the IDE

Property Editors

Property editors provide custom dialogs to edit properties in the object inspector. For most properties, like strings, string lists, images, enumerated types and others, there are already default property editors, but if a custom component has a special kind of property it may require a custom dialog to edit the property. Each property editor is a class, which should descend from TPropertyEditor or one of it's descendents and implement methods from this base class. They should be registered in the 'Register' procedure by using the function RegisterPropertyEditor from the unit PropEdits. It is a standard to name property editors with the property name followed by 'Property', for example TFieldProperty for the property editor of the TField property.

  TPropertyEditor = class
  public
    function  AllEqual: Boolean; Virtual;
    function  AutoFill: Boolean; Virtual;
    procedure Edit; Virtual;     // Activated by double-clicking the property value
    procedure ShowValue; Virtual; // Activated by control-clicking the property value
    function  GetAttributes: TPropertyAttributes; Virtual;
    function  GetEditLimit: Integer; Virtual;
    function  GetName: ShortString; Virtual;
    procedure GetProperties(Proc: TGetPropEditProc); Virtual;
    function  GetHint(HintType: TPropEditHint; x, y: integer): String; Virtual;
    function  GetDefaultValue: AnsiString; Virtual;
    procedure GetValues(Proc: TGetStrProc); Virtual;
    procedure SetValue(const NewValue: AnsiString); Virtual;
    procedure UpdateSubProperties; Virtual;
    function  SubPropertiesNeedsUpdate: Boolean; Virtual;
    function  IsDefaultValue: Boolean; Virtual;
    function  IsNotDefaultValue: Boolean; Virtual;
    // ... shortened
  end;

A good example for a property editor is the TFont property editor.

One of the most common cases for property editors is properties which are classes, because classes have many fields and can have a variety of formats, it's not possible for Lazarus to have the object inspector edit field able to edit it, like is done for strings and numeric types. For classes a convention is to have the value field show permanently the name of the class in parentheses, for example „(TFont)“ and the „...“ button shows a dialog to edit this class. This behavior, except for the dialog, is implemented by a standard property editor for classes called TClassPropertyEditor, which can be inherited from when writing property editors for classes:

TClassPropertyEditor = class(TPropertyEditor)
public
  constructor Create(Hook: TPropertyEditorHook; APropCount: Integer); Override;
  function GetAttributes: TPropertyAttributes; Override;
  procedure GetProperties(Proc: TGetPropEditProc); Override;
  function GetValue: AnsiString; Override;
  property SubPropsTypeFilter: TTypeKinds Read FSubPropsTypeFilter
                                         Write SetSubPropsTypeFilter
                                       Default tkAny;
end;

Going back to the TFont example, inheriting from TClassPropertyEditor already offers part of the desired behavior and then the TFontPropertyEditor class only needs to implement showing the dialog in the Edit method and set the attributes for the editor:

  TFontPropertyEditor = class(TClassPropertyEditor)
  public
    procedure Edit; Override;
    function  GetAttributes: TPropertyAttributes; Override;
  end;

procedure TFontPropertyEditor.Edit;
var 
  FontDialog: TFontDialog;
begin
  FontDialog := TFontDialog.Create(NIL);
  try
    FontDialog.Font    := TFont(GetObjectValue(TFont));
    FontDialog.Options := FontDialog.Options + [fdShowHelp, fdForceFontExist];
    if FontDialog.Execute then SetPtrValue(FontDialog.Font);
  finally
    FontDialog.Free;
  end;
end;

function TFontPropertyEditor.GetAttributes: TPropertyAttributes;
begin
  Result := [paMultiSelect, paSubProperties, paDialog, paReadOnly];
end;

Component Editors

Component editors control the behavior of right-clicking and double clicking components in the form designer. Each component editor is a class, which should descend from TComponentEditor or one of it's descendents and implement methods from this base class. They should be registered in the 'Register' procedure by using the function RegisterComponentEditor from the unit ComponentEditors. It is a standard to name component editors with the component name followed by 'Editor', for example TStringGridComponentEditor for the property editor of the TStringGrid component. Although user component editors should be based in TComponentEditor, most of it's methods are actually from an ancestor, so it is necessary to also know TBaseComponentEditor:

  TBaseComponentEditor = class
  protected
  public
    constructor Create(AComponent: TComponent;
                       ADesigner: TComponentEditorDesigner); Virtual;
    procedure Edit; Virtual; Abstract;
    procedure ExecuteVerb(Index: Integer); Virtual; Abstract;
    function  GetVerb(Index: Integer): String; Virtual; Abstract;
    function  GetVerbCount: Integer; Virtual; Abstract;
    procedure PrepareItem(Index: Integer; const AnItem: TMenuItem); Virtual; Abstract;
    procedure Copy; Virtual; Abstract;
    function  IsInInlined: Boolean; Virtual; Abstract;
    function  GetComponent: TComponent; Virtual; Abstract;
    function  GetDesigner: TComponentEditorDesigner; Virtual; Abstract;
    function  GetHook(out Hook: TPropertyEditorHook): Boolean; Virtual; Abstract;
    procedure Modified; Virtual; Abstract;
  end;

The most important method of a component editor is Edit, which is called when the component is double clicked. When the context menu for the component is invoked the GetVerbCount and GetVerb methods are called to build the menu. If one of the verbs (which means menu items in this case) are selected, ExecuteVerb is called. There is a default component editor (TDefaultEditor) which implements Edit to search the properties of the component for the most appropriate one to be edited. It usually chooses an event, which is edited by adding it's skeleton code in the code editor and setting the cursor to be in place to add code for it.

Other important methods from TBasComponentEditor are: ExecuteVerb(Index), which executes one of the extra menu items placed on the right-click popup menu; GetVerb – To return the name of each extra popup menu item. Note that t is the responsibility of the component editor to place special menu item caption characters like & to create a keyboard accelerator and “-” to create a separator; GetVerbCount – Returns the amount of items to be added to the popup menu. The index for the routines GetVerb and ExecuteVerb is zero based, going from 0 to GetVerbCount – 1; PrepareItem – Called for each verb after the menu item was created. Allows the menu item to be customized such as by adding subitems, adding a checkbox or even hiding it by setting Visible to false; Copy - Called when the component is being copied to the clipboard. The component data for use by Lazarus will always be added and cannot be modified. This method is instead for adding a different kind of clipboard information to paste the component in other applications, but which won't affect the Lazarus paste.

A simple and interesting example is the TCheckListBox component editor which creates a dialog to edit. More convenient then implementing all methods from TBaseComponentEditor is inheriting from TComponentEditor, and this is what TCheckListBoxEditor does. This base class adds empty implementations for most methods and some default ones for others. For Edit it calls ExecuteVerb(0), so if the first item will be identical to the double-click action, which is a convention for editor, there is no need to implement Edit. This basic action for the double-click and first menu item is often a dialog, and for TCheckListBox this is also done:

  TCheckListBoxComponentEditor = class(TComponentEditor)
  protected
    procedure DoShowEditor;
  public
    procedure ExecuteVerb(Index: Integer); override;
    function  GetVerb(Index: Integer): String; override;
    function  GetVerbCount: Integer; override;
  end;

procedure TCheckGroupComponentEditor.DoShowEditor;
var
  Dlg: TCheckGroupEditorDlg;
begin
  Dlg := TCheckGroupEditorDlg.Create(NIL);
  try
    // .. shortened
    Dlg.ShowModal;
    // .. shortened
  finally
    Dlg.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TCheckGroupComponentEditor.ExecuteVerb(Index: Integer);
begin
  case Index of
    0: DoShowEditor;
  end;
end;

function TCheckGroupComponentEditor.GetVerb(Index: Integer): String;
begin
  Result := 'CheckBox Editor...';
end;

function TCheckGroupComponentEditor.GetVerbCount: Integer;
begin
  Result := 1;
end;

Reference

• Extending the IDE
• Lazarus Packages - A guide for creating a package under Lazarus
• Components and Code examples
• Lazarus Components
• IDE Window: Add to Package

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