Registration Dialog Designer
The Registration Dialog Designer allows to desing a custom registration dialog, apply own styles and window controls configuration. Here you are able to put own controls on the form and define registration events. Registration dialog designer contains 3 forms:
Components Palette
Contains a set of available components that you can put on the registration form. Main menu of the form allows to show Object Inspector and Designed Form. Description of components' properties see below. To place component on the registration form click on the necessary component on the Component Palette and then click on the Registration Form to put component at necessary position.
There are following controls available:
- TForm - the registration form itself;
TEdit control allows to enter registration name and key, show a hardware id or contain any user text;
TLabel control allows to show any text;
TMemo control is very similar to TEdit control but may have multiple lines of the text;
TGroupBox control allows to group few controls on the form and also may contain a header text;
TButton is a push button control that allows manage users actions like registering, closing application or continue execution;
TSpeedButton control is very similar to TButton, but also may contain an image;
TLink control allows to open a browser window, default email client, open some text file in the external window or open/executed any other file;
TImage control allows to draw a simple geometric shape on the form;
TShape control allows to place an image to the form;
TBevel control allows to create beveled boxes, frames, or lines;
TPanel control allows to put an empty panel on a form. Panels have properties for providing a beveled border around the control, as well as methods to help manage the placement of child controls embedded in the panel;
File menu
- Load from File - allows to load registration form from external file;
- Save to File - allows to save current registration form to external file;
- Exit - exit designer;
Edit menu
- Cut - cut selected control(s) to clipboard;
- Copy - copy selected control(s) to clipboard;
- Paste - paste copied/cutted control(s) from clipboard to form;
- Delete - delete selected control(s) from the form;
- Select All - select all control(s) on the form;
- Bring to Front - bring selected control(s) to the front;
- Send to Back - send selected control(s) to the back;
- Aligb to Grid - align selected control(s) to the grid;
View menu
- Object Inspector - show Object Inspector;
- Designed Form - show designing registration form;
Registration Form
This is a form that will be shown to the users to allow enter registration information. Click onto the necessary component that is placed on this form and it's properpies will be shown in the Object Inspector. To delete component from the form click right mouse button at the component and choose Delete item in the appeared popup menu, or click Del button (Note: registration form could not be deleted).
Right mouse click shows registration form popup menu.
- Cut - cut selected control(s) to clipboard;
- Copy - copy selected control(s) to clipboard;
- Paste - paste copied/cutted control(s) from clipboard to form;
- Delete - delete selected control(s) from the form;
- Select All - select all control(s) on the form;
- Bring to Front - bring selected control(s) to the front;
- Send to Back - send selected control(s) to the back;
- Aligb to Grid - align selected control(s) to the grid;
Object Inspector
There are shown selected component properties. Navigate to necessary control description to learn more about its properties.
