Three components are provided that enable applications to support Windows Explorer file drag and drop. The components are:

• TPJDropFiles - This windowed component catches files dropped anywhere over its window. It can act as a container for other components.
• TPJFormDropFiles - This non-visual component catches files dropped anywhere on its form, including the non-client areas.
• TPJCtrlDropFiles - This non-visual component catches files dropped on an associated TWinControl or TFrame.

Key features of these components are:

• An OnDropFiles event is triggered when files are dropped.
• The names of dropped files are made available through the Files array property. For convenience, the name of the first file is also stored in the FileName property.
• The list of dropped files can be configured to include only files, only folders or all files and folders.
• Dropped folders can be recursed so that all the files and sub-folders in each of the dropped folders are listed.
• Filters can be applied to the dropped files and folders. This is done in one of two ways: (1) by handling the OnFileFilter event and deciding which files and folders to pass through the filter and (2) by linking the drop file component to a special file filter component, derived from the abstract TPJFileFilter. In this case the dropped files are automatically filtered by the filter component. Two filter components are provided: TPJExtFileFilter that filters according to file extensions and TPJWildCardFileFilter that filters using DOS-style wildcards. Developers can create further filter components by deriving from TPJFileFilter.
• The mouse co-ordinates where the files were dropped can be retrieved, as can a reference to any control under the mouse cursor at the time.
• The OnBeforeDrop event can be used to do pre-processing before the files are actually dropped.
• The IsFolder array property tells if an equivalent item in the Files list is a file or a folder.
• The owning window can be brought to the front when files are dropped.
• Some design time assistance is provided by component and property editors.

A Delphi 3-7 OpenHelp compatible help file is supplied. Additionally an a-link keyword file is provided for use with Delphi 6/7.

System information classes and associated global variables. Information is provided via:

• TPJComputerInfo: a static class that provides information about the user's computer.
• TPJSystemFolders: a static class that gets full path of certain system folders.
• TPJOSInfo: a static class that provides information about the Windows operating system including platform, product and edition, service packs, version numbers, product ID etc.
• Global Win32XXX variables: extra variables to those provided by the SysUtils unit that provide extended OS version information on later NT platform OSs.

Extended operating system detection improved in this release: can now detect Windows Vista, XP Tablet and XP Media Center editions, and WOW64 subsystem of 64 bit Windows.

The TPJSysInfo component and a set of functions that were provided in earlier versions of the unit are also included but are now deprecated.

Some OS detection code based on a translation of example C code on MSDN.

Ortus Shell Components Personal Edition v2.1


Add Microsoft® Windows® shell functionality to your applications with this component package!

Ortus Shell Components is a component package for the Borland® developer community containing 10 outstanding shell components. Full context sensitive component help file is included.

• Use TOrtusShellTreeView, TOrtusShellListView and TOrtusShellComboBox for applications that need the "look and feel" of the Explorer, including OLE drag & drop from your application to the shell and vice versa. Control the drag & drop behaviour using the drag & drop effects properties.
  
• Use TOrtusShellFolderChangeNotifier and get informed about folder changes.
  
• Use TOrtusShellChangeNotifier and get informed about folder and global changes in the shell, including notifications about new media being added or removed. The component is capable to monitor a list of folders, including special folders!
  
• Use TOrtusShellSearch and TOrtusShellSearchResultListView to scan disks and folders. The search runs in a separate low priority thread.
  
• Use TOrtusShellTrayIcon to create a system tray icon application and add icon animations that can be started and stopped through a simple method call. Balloon tooltips support is included.
  
• Use TOrtusShellLink to create shortcuts from within your application.
  
• Use TOrtusShellFileAssociation to associate a file extension with your application.
  

Ortus Shell Dialogs Personal Edition v1.5


Get access to the Microsoft® Windows® shell dialogs & wizards from within your applications using this component package!

Ortus Shell Dialogs is a component package for the Borland® developer community containing 12 shell dialog & wizard 'wrapper' components. A context sensitive component help file is included.

• Use the TOrtusShellControlPanel to display the control panel or one of the control panel aplets.
  
• Use the TOrtusShellAbout, TOrtusShellOpenWith, TOrtusShellNewShortcut, TOrtusShellBrowseComputer, TOrtusShellBrowseFolder, TOrtusShellRun, TOrtusShellExitWindows, TOrtusShellDiskFull, TOrtusShellFormatDisk, TOrtusShellProperties and TOrtusShellOrganizeFavorites to launch the corresponding shell dialog.