Windows 7 integration with Delphi

Question

I need components to integrate my app to Windows 7. I'm talking about the taskbar's ability to have progressbar, buttons, text and so on.

What is the best you know?

Answer 1

I don't know about components, but I've seen a few blog posts that explain how to implement this yourself. Check out http://www.drbob42.com/examines/examinC5.htm and http://alex.ciobanu.org/?p=215, for example.

Answer 2

Daniel Wischnewski is developing some Windows 7 components for Delphi.

This video on his blog, demonstrates some of the features.

Answer 3

There's a package of Windows 7 components, free with source, at delphi.fsprolabs.com. The best I can say is that the components perform as expected, when you work out how to use them: the implementation is not very elegant and I found it hard to get started with them. Mason Wheeler's link to DrBob's post will get you to about the same point but you will gain useful knowledge along the way.

Answer 4

There is also a project hosted on goolge code from The unknownones with a component set called TaskbarListComponents.

It looks to be a very nice and a complete implementation.

You can see them in action here.

http://www.vimeo.com/14291783 TTaskbarListThumbButtons and TTaskbarListOverlayIcon

http://www.vimeo.com/14354328 TTaskbarListProgress

http://www.vimeo.com/14356627 TTaskbarlistFormTab and TTaskbarlistControlTab