Description

abfDialogs contains a set of easy-to-use dialog components. You can show any dialog by one line of code or by one click in design time. Also contains a set of powerful MessageDlg styled functions. You can preview any dialog at design-time by double clicking it.

Content

The abfDialogs set contains following components:

TabfWinAboutDlg

TabfWinAboutDlg implements a standard Windows About dialog. This dialog has a different view under different versions of Windows, but using this component you can care no about this problem. Allows user to set all parameters of the About dialog whether at run-time or design-time. The dialog does not appear at run-time until it is activated by a call to the Execute method.

Sample of the About dialog is showed by the TabfWinAboutDlg component

Sample of the About dialog under Windows 2000

TabfSelectDirDlg

abfSelectDirDlg

TabfSelectDirDlg brings up a dialog that allows the user to select or enter a directory name.

Sample of the Select Directory dialog is showed by the TabfSelectDirDlg component

TabfBrowseFolderDlg

abfBrowseFolderDlg

TabfBrowseFolderDlg displays a dialog box that enables the user to select a shell folder. Has a Create folder button that is not implemented in the standard Browse for Folder shell dialogs.

Sample of the Browse for Folder dialog

Sample of the Browse for Folder dialog of new style

TabfCplDlg

TabfCplDlg shows any Control Panel applet or the Control Panel itself. Also you can run own CPL applets using the TabfCplDlg component.

Sample of Mouse control applet is run by the TabfCplDlg component

TabfRunDlg

TabfRunDlg shows a standard Run dialog that you can see when press Run menu (Win+R) item in the Start menu.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfRunDlg component

TabfOpenWithDlg

TabfOpenWithDlg shows a standard Open With shell dialog.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfOpenWithDlg component

TabfObjectPropertiesDlg

abfObjectPropertiesDlg

TabfObjectPropertiesDlg shows a standard Object Properties shell dialog.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfObjectPropertiesDlg component

TabfPickIconDlg

TabfPickIconDlg shows a standard shell Change Icon dialog, allows user to get Large and Small icon at once.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfPickIconDlg component

TabfFindDlg

TabfFindDlg shows a standard Find file of Find computer shell dialog.

TabfCreateShortcutDlg

abfCreateShortcutDlg

TabfCreateShortcutDlg displays a standard Create Shortcut wizard.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfCreateShortcutDlg component

TabfAddToFavoritesDlg

abfAddToFavoritesDlg

TabfAddToFavoritesDlg allows the user to add links to the Favorites using a standard Add to Favorites dialog.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfAddToFavoritesDlg component

TabfOrganizeFavoritesDlg

abfOrganizeFavoritesDlg

TabfOrganizeFavoritesDlg displays a standard Organize Favorites dialog.

Sample of dialog is showed by the TabfOrganizeFavoritesDlg component

MessageDlg routines

Contains a set of MessageDlg styled functions that allow highly customize the output of messages, input of values or perform other dialog routines.

Sample of the dialog created by abfMessageDlgEx function

Requirements

Borland Delphi 3 (and higher) or C++Builder 3 (and higher).
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP.