Double click on a non-visual component

Double-clicking a component at design time brings up the component editor. The default component editor is one that looks for event properties with specific names and creates a handler for what it finds. You can write your own component editor to do whatever you want.

Create a child TComponentEditor

(from the DesignEditors block) and override Edit

to handle double clicks. You can also override the GetVerbCount

, GetVerb

and methods ExecuteVerb

to add context menu items to your component. To get a link to the component that your editor is editing, check the property Component

. Call Designer.Modified

if your editor modifies a component.

Tell the IDE that your editor should be used with your component by calling RegisterComponentEditor

(from DesignIntf) in your procedure Register

.

You should place this code in a design-time package, separate from your component code. Place the runtime package in the "Required" list of the design-time package. If you put everything in one package, then consumers of your component won't be able to use runtime packages in their projects; they are not allowed to distribute your design-time package dependencies, which are only for use in the IDE.