Title: Design time Icons for CoClasses
Question: This article describes how to add a icon to a
CoClass.
The Icon will be shown in Programming enviroments like
VB, VC++, Delphi, ...
Answer:
To add a icon to a Coclass, there must be a special key in the
windows registry.
see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/com/htm/reg_14z6.asp
for more info.
We can do this automatically, if we use the following
factory:
TAutoObjectFactoryWithIcon = class(TAutoObjectFactory)
private
FIconIndex: Integer;
public
procedure UpdateRegistry (bRegister: boolean); override;
property IconIndex:Integer read FIconIndex write FIconIndex;
end;
implementation
procedure TAutoObjectFactoryWithIcon.UpdateRegistry(bRegister: boolean);
var
BitmapKey: string;
begin
BitmapKey := 'CLSID\' + GUIDToString(ClassID) + '\ToolboxBitmap32';
if bRegister then
begin
inherited;
CreateRegKey(BitmapKey, '',
ComServer.ServerFileName + ',' + IntToStr(FIconIndex));
end
else
begin
DeleteRegKey(BitmapKey);
inherited;
end;
end;
The next thing, we have to do is to replace
the factory class:
initialization
with
TAutoObjectFactoryWithIcon.Create(ComServer, TMyCoClass, Class_MyCoClass,
ciMultiInstance, tmApartment) do
begin
IconIndex := 3;
end;
end.
And don't forget to add a icon (16*16 Pixels)
for every CoClass to the ActiveX-DLL or
Automatisation-Server.
please refer to:
http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_2606.asp