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Delphi and CBuilder Components to create Explorer type programs

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MustangpeakVirtualShellTools

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Package names
  3. Installation

Introduction

The Turbopak Mustangpeak library for Delphi and C++Builder was originally developed by Jim Kueneman and contains the EasyListView and the VirutalShellExplorer components. Mustangpeak VirtualShellTools provides Windows Explorer style shell treeview and list view components for Delphi and C++Builder applications. The main component TVirtualExplorerTree is a VirtualStringTree decsendant and is VCL Styles and DPI-aware enabled.

This is a source-only release of MustangpeakVirtualShellTools. It includes designtime and runtime packages for Delphi and CBuilder and supports Win32 and Win64.

Package names

MustangpeakVirtualShellTools package names have the following form:

  • VirtualShellToolsD.dpk (Delphi runtime package)
  • VirtualShellToolsDD.dpk (Delphi design time package)
  • VirtualShellToolsC.bpl (C++Builder Runtime for the VCL)
  • VirtualShellToolsCD.bpl (C++Builder Runtime for the VCL)

RAD STUDIO Berlin or later supported.

Installation

To install MustangpeakVirtualShellTools into your IDE, take the following steps:

  1. Install first MustangpeakCommonLib, MustangpeakEasyListView and Virtual-TreeView.
  1. Clone or download and unzip the Github repository into a directory (e.g., D:\MustangpeakVirtualShellTools).
  1. Start RAD Studio.
  1. Add the source subdirectory (e.g., D:\MustangpeakVirtualShellTools\Source) to the IDE's library path.
  1. Open and compile the runtime package specific to the IDE being used.
  1. Open & install the corresponding designtime package.
  1. If you have installed Toolbar2000 or SpTBXLib components and want to use them with VirtualShellTools, enable the respective directives in Include\Addins.inc.