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IDE- Integrated development environment - the Delphi or CBuilder
development interface
VCL - Visual Control - a component that contains executable code
and data. They are distributed in a set of files. Once
installed into your IDE, they can be dragged from your
component palette to one of your forms.
VCLs interface with your code in these 3 ways:
Properties - settings that tell the VCL how to perform it's
actions. These can be set at design time in the Property
Inspector, or at run time with Pascal/C++ code.
Methods - these are functions/procedures that must be called
by your Pascal/C++ code to perform actions.
Events - these are calls to functions/procedures that you
define in your code. These calls execute automatically
depending on certain key actions occuring. The function/
procedure that is called is the "event handler". For
example, an "OnMessage" event will call it's associated
function/procedure (set via the Object Inspector) whenever
the DLLs want to send the user a message.