Release of Ortus Shell Components under the BSD License
Add Microsoft® Windows® shell functionality to your applications with this component package!
Ortus Shell Components is a component package for the Embarcadero Technologies® developer community containing 10 outstanding shell components. The package has been released under the BSD license. Full context sensitive component help file is included.
- Use TOrtusShellTreeView, TOrtusShellListView and TOrtusShellComboBox for applications that need the "look and feel" of the Explorer, including OLE drag & drop from your application to the shell and vice versa. Control the drag & drop behaviour using the drag & drop effects properties. Use TOrtusShellFolderChangeNotifier and get informed about folder changes.
- Use TOrtusShellChangeNotifier and get informed about folder and global changes in the shell, including notifications about new media being added or removed. The component is capable to monitor a list of folders, including special folders!
- Use TOrtusShellSearch and TOrtusShellSearchResultListView to scan disks and folders. The search runs in a separate low priority thread.
- Use TOrtusShellTrayIcon to create a system tray icon application and add icon animations that can be started and stopped through a simple method call. Balloon tooltips support is included. Use TOrtusShellLink to create shortcuts from within your application.
- Use TOrtusShellFileAssociation to associate a file extension with your application.
Release of Ortus Shell Dialogs under the BSD License
Get access to the Microsoft® Windows® shell dialogs & wizards from within your applications using this component package!
Ortus Shell Dialogs is a component package for the Embarcadero Technologies® developer community containing 12 shell dialog & wizard 'wrapper' components. The package has been released under the BSD license. A context sensitive component help file is included.
- Use the TOrtusShellControlPanel to display the control panel or one of the control panel aplets.
- Use the TOrtusShellAbout, TOrtusShellOpenWith, TOrtusShellNewShortcut, TOrtusShellBrowseComputer, TOrtusShellBrowseFolder, TOrtusShellRun, TOrtusShellExitWindows, TOrtusShellDiskFull, TOrtusShellFormatDisk, TOrtusShellProperties and TOrtusShellOrganizeFavorites to launch the corresponding shell dialog.


