The
Project Manager displays the contents of your current project group and any project it
contains. It allows you to navigate among various projects and the projects’
constituent files. You can perform project management tasks using its toolbar
and context (right-click) menus.
To
display the Project Manager:
1. Open
a project.
2. Choose
View|Project Manager.
To view a
unit, form or other file, double-click it. It is displayed in the Code editor.
The
Project Manager gives you a high-level view of the projects contained in a
project group, and of the form, unit files, resource, object, and library files
contained in the project file.
Many
commands are available by selecting an item in the Project Manager and
right-clicking to display a Project
Manager context menu. You can use the Project Manager to open, add, save,
and remove project files. You can also use the Project Manager to access the Project Options dialog box, which lets you
configure your default project settings.
You can
also add additional types of files to your project (using drag and drop or
Project|Add to Project) and view them in the editor as text files. You can also
add resource files, and they are compiled into resource files and linked when
you compile the project.
The
Project Manager is an invaluable tool if you share files among different
projects because it lets you quickly find each file in the project (see Adding
existing forms and units to a project and Sharing
objects). It is also useful when backing up all the files in your project
(see Backing up a project).
Certain
operations, such as commands available on context menus, operate on the active
project. The active project is the one that is highlighted in bold in the
Project Manager and is the project you are currently working on. The active
project is also shown in the project selector which is the top left of the
Project Manager. See Selecting
a project to work on.
To make a
project the active project:
1. Display
the Project Manager.
2. Select
the project you want to make active and click Activate.
When you view a project item, such as a form or source code, the Project Manager automatically makes the project it belongs to the active project. Projects you select using the project selector automatically become the active project.