Components Palette Inspector

Welcome To CPI IDE Expert Guide
by
Ramadan K. Abu-Msameh
Last update SEP 13, 2009

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In Delphi70 IDE

CPI Platforms

Delphi 6.0 Delphi 7.0,
BDS2005 BDS2006 BDS2007 BDS2009

Component Palette Inspector (CPI) beta version is a collection of experts which extend the functionality of Delphi IDE in the following categories: (1) component palette, (2) form designer, (3) property inspector, (4) property editors, (5) component editors, (6) debugging, (7) exploring and (8) Source code generation.

CPI expert is a personal effort done by me during my spare time and it is not a company product at all and not owned by anybody except me. So, you may use its beta version as a freeware only. I will try my best to keep it updated and make it a professional expert that makes life easy while using Delphi even though my programming knowledge is limited and acquired through self-learning ( I have a B.S and M.S degrees in Physics and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering).

If you would like to implement certain operations that meet your needs please write and I will reprogram CPI to implement them. If you have suggestions or questions or a bug note on CPI please don't hesitate to write me at

ramadan@moitti.ae
Legends
Submitting error reports, ideas or suggestions do not entitle you to any rights in CPI
Many thanks goes to all users for their error reports and suggestions

Component Palette Inspector

When comparing Delphi to other programming languages like C#, C++, VB, Java, ...etc. one finds that it is still one of the best programming language and many thanks for all the people in Borland. One of the most beautiful thing about Delphi, it offers an Open Tools API to allow programmers to extend the functionality of Delphi IDE . Without this feature, this work would be impossible.

Component Palette Inspector (CPI) beta version is a collection of experts which extend the functionality of Delphi IDE in the following categories:

Note:
I am working hard on CPI V60 and it will be published. However, I am trying to retest at least its main core experts. This takes time but progress is fine and will produce a stable version.

All problems can be corrected easily, but the hardest, are the ones that relate to IDE. CPIV60 has a lot of interactions with IDE through docking. Fortunately, I solved them all. All what is remaining is to go back to all CPI operations and review them and try to inject a lot of guarding code to minimize "AV" errors that result from accessing invalid memory locations through dangling pointers.

CPI Packages

CPI Packages in V60 are four packages which are: