Open Tools Interfaces

The Open Tools API is composed of 14 units, each containing one or more objects that provide interfaces to a variety of facilities in the IDE. Using these interfaces enables you to write your own Delphi wizards, version control managers, and component and property editors. You'll also gain a window into Delphi's IDE and editor through any of these add-ons.

With the exception of the interfaces designed for component and property editors, the Open Tools interface objects provide an all-virtual interface to the outside world—meaning that using these interface objects involves working only with the objects' virtual functions. You can't access the objects' data fields, properties, or static functions. Because of this, the Open ...

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