Delphi Welcome Page Plugin by Serveasy

Delphi 11 Alexandria Welcome Page Plugin

With the release of the Delphi 11 Alexandria version and the new Welcome Page, we had lost the much useful option to organize projects in a favorites section in folders.
Therefore we decided to create our own plugin to have a similar option in the new Welcome Page.

How it works

Serveasy Welcome Page Plugin  gives you the ability to organize your projects into favorite folders.

     

The Mainframe’s Theme Style reflects the Ide’s Theme Style.

The Favorite Groups are populated in alphabetical order and all values ​​are stored in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\22.0\WelcomePage\Serveasy

Toolbar main features

New Favorite Group
Option to create a new Favorite group

Remove Favorite Group
Option to delete a selected Favorite group

Add any Project
Option to add any project to a selected Favorite group

Add from Recent Projects
Option to add a project from Open Recent list to a selected Favorite group

Create new…
Option to create a new Windows VCL Application, Multi-device Application, Package and so on

Open Recent
Option to open a project from Open Recent list

About
Option to show the about box

Other options

Delete
To delete an item from a Group, right click the item and choose delete.

Components used in this plugin

Serveasy Welcome Page Plugin is developed using only native Vcl Rad Studio Components

• TFrame
  Every Welcome Page plugin starts from this component
• TToolBar
  Plugin Bar Menu
• TToolButton
  Bar Menu Buttons
• TActionList
  Plugin Actionlist container
• TImageCollection
  Plugin images collection
• TVirtualImageList
  Plugin dynamic images list
• TCategoryPanelGroup
  Container for collapsible panels that are TCategoryPanel (the Plugin Favorites panel list)
• TListView
  Plugin Favorites projects List view
• TPopupMenu
• TOpenDialog
• TRegistry
• TLabel

We also used some Interfaces from ToolsAPI and ToolsAPI.WelcomePage

Download and installation

First of all download the plugin WP.ServeasyPlugin280.bpl
and copy it to the Rad-Studio Bin folder (let’s say C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\bin) or to the Standard Bpl folder (let’s say C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\22.0\Bpl).

Now to install the Serveasy Welcome Page Plugin go to the Rad-Studio IDE Component menu and choose Install Packages.

Click Add to browse for the folder where the plugin is located and select WP.ServeasyPlugin280.bpl, then click Save.