Pseudo-Visual Components
You've learned about visual components such as TButton and TEdit, and you've learned about nonvisual components such as TTable and TTimer. In this section, you'll also learn about a type of component that kind of falls in between visual and nonvisual components—we'll call these components pseudo-visual components.
Extending Hints
Specifically, the pseudo-visual component shown in this section is an extension of a Delphi pop-up hint window. We call this a pseudo-visual component because it's not a component that's used visually from the Component Palette at design time, but it does represent itself visually at runtime in the body of pop-up hints.
Replacing the default style hint window in a Delphi application requires ...
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