IHYVisualPlugin

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Overview

IHYVisualPlugin is the interface of visual Hydra plugins. It is implemented by the THYVisualPlugin form class.

Use visual plugins for GUI modules. IHYVisualPlugin has methods that will let the host application show the module and access its actions.

uHYIntf

IHYVisualPlugin = interface(IHYPlugin);

Property	Type	Description
Visible
InstanceID		Inherited from IHYPlugin Read InstanceID to determine the run-time identifier of the plugin instance.
PluginActions		Inherited from IHYPlugin Set PluginActions to a VCL ActionList component in the Hydra plugin. The host application should use PluginActions for accessing the action objects of the plugin.
Host		Inherited from IHYHostAware Read Host to access the IHYHost interface of the THYModuleManager component of the host application.
HostParameters		Inherited from IHYHostAware The purpose of HostParameters is to provide initialization parameters for the plugin creation. HostParameters will be assigned by the host immediately after the module controller has been loaded or the plugin has been created. The plugin should assign an event handler to OnSetHostParameters to respond to this event.

Method	Description
Hide
Show
ShowParented	Call ShowParented in the host application with a TWinControl as the aParent argument to show the visual plugin as a child of aParent. The aParent control is typically a TPanel or TTabSheet.
GetObject	Inherited from IHYPlugin Call GetObject to obtain a TObject reference to the plugin instance.