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This can be done by adding IPersistPropertyBag support to your ActiveForm. Normally,
you would have to go through and actually implement the whole interface yourself, but the ATL is nice enough
to provide a default implementation and a couple of handy macros. Here are the things we need to concern ourselves
with:
IPersistPropertyBagImpl -- ATL's default IPersistPropertyBag implementation.
COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL -- Tells the compiler that our class implements a certain interface.
PROP_ENTRY -- Tells the compiler about a certain property of our class.
Adding property support to your ActiveForm (or any ActiveX control in BCB) is relatively simple. Our test
ActiveForm is called AFormTest. The following additions are necessary (all of the code changes below
are in your **Impl.h file.)
1) Add whatever properties you need in the Type Library Editor.
2) Note each property's DispID (this can be seen in the Attributes page of the TLE under ID).
3) Change the line:
class ATL_NO_VTABLE TAFormTestImpl:
VCLCONTROL_IMPL(TAFormTestImpl, AFormTest, TAFormTest, IAFormTest, DIID_IAFormTestEvents)
To this:
class ATL_NO_VTABLE TAFormTestImpl:
VCLCONTROL_IMPL(TAFormTestImpl, AFormTest, TAFormTest, IAFormTest, DIID_IAFormTestEvents),
public IPersistPropertyBagImpl<TAFormTestImpl>
4) Within the BEGIN..END_COM_MAP macros in your **Impl class, add the following:
COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL(IPersistPropertyBag)
5) Within the BEGIN..END_PROPERTY_MAP macros in your **Impl class, add the following:
PROP_ENTRY("PropertyName",<dispid>,CLSID_*)
Where PropertyName is the name of your property, dispid is it's DispID, and CLSID_* is its CLSID.
5) Now implement your class's property getter/setters and it should work just fine!
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