MustangpeakVirtualShellTools

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Package names
3. Installation

Introduction

The Turbopak Mustangpeak library 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 MustangpeakVirtualShellTools. It includes designtime and runtime packages for Delphi and CBuilder and supports Win32 and Win64.

Package names

MustangpeakVirtualShellTools 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 Berlin or later supported.

Installation

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

1. Install first MustangpeakCommonLib, MustangpeakEasyListView and Virtual-TreeView.

2. Clone or download and unzip the Github repository into a directory (e.g., D:\MustangpeakVirtualShellTools).

3. Start RAD Studio.

4. Add the source subdirectory (e.g., D:\MustangpeakVirtualShellTools\Source) to the IDE's library path.

5. Open and compile the runtime package specific to the IDE being used.

6. Open & install the corresponding designtime package.

7. If you have installed Toolbar2000 or SpTBXLib components and want to use them with VirtualShellTools, enable the respective directives in Include\Addins.inc.