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Start an applet from the control panel (Display properties..)
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Are you looking for a way to start Control Panel applets from your application without
opening the Control Panel? For example to let the user set display properties or
the time/ date?
Look in your \Windows\System (NT: \System32) directory to find out the names of the
applet - each applet corresponds to a .CPL file which is practically a DLL.
The function StartApplet() in the following code starts a given applet; the sample brings
up the "Display Properties" dialog:
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Program AppletDemo;
Uses
SysUtils, Windows;
function StartApplet(app : String): integer;
var
cCmd : array [0..1023] of char;
begin
StrPCopy (cCmd, 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL ' + app);
Result := WinExec (cCmd, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
end;
begin
StartApplet ('desk.cpl');
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cd \Windows\System32
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This was very helpful, thanks.
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