It happened to me, that the Delphi XE6 IDE forgot all of the TFrame descendants that I created in the past. More specifically, when I click on Standard -> Frames, the dialog for choosing my frames...

This seems like a very simple problem, but I cannot get a scrollbox to display scrollbars, and it is driving me crazy. Here is the situation. I need to display a variable number of frames in a por...

Delphi object inspector doesn't show TFrame descendants's additional properties by design. People tend to suggest using a known trick which is commonly used for showing TForm descendant's propertie...

I'm was trying to write a dll library in Delphi wih a function that creates an instance of a TFrame descendant and returns it. But when I imported this function in an application, every time I call...

I would like to have a KeyPreview functionality within Frames, I mean, that when the input (say, one of the controls of the frame is selected, or the mouse is inside) is in a frame (which would hav...

I have some forms in my application which have different "states" depending on what the user is doing; for exemple when listing through his files the form displays some data about that file in a gr...

Hi I have a form with several frames inside. For some of the frames, i wish to scroll the contents (or at least handle the mousewheel event). I have tried the following: Simply assigning a OnMou...

I've used frames in Delphi for years, and they are one of the most powerful features of the VCL, but standard use of them seems to have some risk such as: It's easy to accidentally move or edit t...

How to create (when I want to show it) and destroy (when I want to hide it) frames on the main TForm? Frames' align = alClient. I tried this: The form: unit main; interface uses Windows, Mess...

I have a frame on a form. When I change the frame (add/delete buttons, labels) no changes appear on the form or controls have other positions in the form that in the frame. If to delete the frame f...

I just recently begun using TFrames heavily (OK, yes, I've been living under a rock...). I thought frames supported Message hander method declaration--and I've seen many examples of that. So why do...

is it posible to create runtime frame and add existing panels like setting the parent of panel to the frame? and when it added, dulplicate the frame and use it? like: f:= Tframe. create(..) ... ...

I often embed a TForm descendant into another TForm descendant like this: var Form1: TForm1; Form2: TForm2; begin Form2.Parent := Form1; Form2.BorderStyle := bsNone; Form2.Align := alClient; ...

How can I simulate an OnDestroy event for a TFrame in Delphi? I naively added a constructor and destructor to my frame, thinking that is what TForm does: TframeEditCustomer = class(TFrame) ... pub...

I am venturing into making my own components in Delphi. I'm having difficulty getting started with component development. I want to make a composite control ie a control made up of several other c...

Every once in a while when I am tweaking my TFrame classes (adding properties, methods, etc), the IDE gets confused and acts as if it thinks the frame is a form, complete with header/caption, borde...

yesterday I've started discussion on "MDI vs tabbed interface". I've asked whether should I continue developing my app as MDI-based, or should I embed the child forms into tab sheets. Someone point...

I was having my usual stroll around and bumped on some frames discussions. I'm mainly a Delphi hobbyist and not a professional, so I had to learn how to use TFrames my own way which is: Create a T...

I have been developing a number of components using TFrames and ModelMaker -- I've found the combination of visual design/development + inheritance + ModelMaker to be very compelling. I then regist...

Yet another TFrame IDE-registered-component question from me. Thanks for all the help, fellow programmers. : ) Playing around with Darrian's TFrame inheritance suggestion here: Specifics: Basica...