Are there any good materials or examples of creating a custom constructor in the Delphi IDE

Question

I am working on creating a custom form designer in the Delphi development environment. I am trying to use the RegisterCustomModule, TBaseCustomModule and ICustomModule functions, classes and interfaces.

My first question on this issue pointed me to the Delphi Developer Handbook and the idea that I could even create a custom form constructor. However, this book seems to be all the information about Delphi 3, and the situation has really changed since then. I did not find any material in the Delphi help file, and the searches did not return very strongly.

I found a random programmer page in Open Tools , but it looks like it was last updated in 1998? It at least has the correct module names and uses new interfaces.

I am willing to track and buy an older book if this is the best link.

Answer 1

would be a good resource, if only it should point to documents that still exist. Unfortunately, BDN disappeared some time after Embarcadero acquired the Borland line of developer tools. After that, the OTA documentation disappeared from the product line. However, a search for the Embarcadero website showed these 2 links that could help: http://gexperts.org/otafaq.html and http://mustangpeak.net/opentoolsape.htm