What is the process of converting win32 application (a small popup window actually) to win7 gadget? Do I need to convert my exe to activex component, can I still use TForm ?
it would be nice to have support for both Win7 + Vista.
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Are you aware that only Windows 7 supports these gadgets? They are no longer available in Windows 8 and 10. Given, that mainstream support for Windows 7 already ended in 2015 and extended support is going to end on 2020-01-14, do you really want to make the effort? – dummzeuch Jan 15 '18 at 16:08
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Thanks but did you notice I asked this one 10 years ago – Tom Feb 24 '18 at 11:28
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Oops, no, I didn't. – dummzeuch Feb 26 '18 at 14:06
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The Windows Vista/7 gadgets are essentially mini-HTML applications. The user interface is composed of pages containing regular HTML, CSS ,images and potentially ActiveX controls.
So the only way to use your win32 application into a gadget is convert the application to a Activex Control.
You can read these articles
Activex
- Building ActiveX Controls with Delphi (This article is old but is still useful)
- Delphi and Active Forms
- Converting a standard Delphi Form to an ActiveForm
Gadgets
Bye.
RRUZ
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If you are able to read German, there is a tutorial at www.delphipraxis.net. Perhaps someone may translate it to English...
Uwe Raabe
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Translated to English via Google: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.delphipraxis.net/topic162626.html&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0= – skamradt Oct 27 '09 at 16:23
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@nurettin, seems they moved the forum system during all these years so the post numbers changed. Nevertheless, I fixed the link. – Uwe Raabe Jan 15 '18 at 08:03
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