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MustangPeak NextGen VirtualShellTools

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Package names
  3. Installation

Introduction

The Mustangpeak libraries 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 VirtualShellTools. It includes designtime and runtime packages for Delphi and CBuilder and supports Win32 and Win64.

Package names

VirtualShellTools 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 Athens or later supported.

Installation

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

  1. Install first CommonLib, EasyListView and VirtualTreeView by JAM-Software or from VirtualTreeView by TurboPack.
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**Note** that you need to install the Virtual-Treview version from the repo and **not**
the **GetIt** version.
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The Virtual-Treeview library from JAM-Software and TurboPack are two differen repositories.
  1. Clone or download and unzip the Github repository into a directory (e.g., D:\MustangPeakNG\VirtualShellTools).
  1. Start RAD Studio.
  1. Add the source subdirectory (e.g., D:\MustangpeakNG\VirtualShellTools\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.

Last update on 14 December 2023