Extensible Components and Environment
Because of the object-oriented nature of Delphi, in addition to creating your own components from scratch, you can also create your own customized components based on stock Delphi components. For more details on this and other types of components, you should take a look at Part IV, “Component-Based Development.”
In addition to allowing you to integrate custom components into the IDE, Delphi provides the capability to integrate entire subprograms, called experts, into the environment. Delphi's Expert Interface enables you to add special menu items and dialog boxes to the IDE to integrate some feature that you feel is worthwhile. An example of an expert is the Database Form Expert located on the Delphi Database ...
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