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Creating and Editing Standard Data Modules
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To create a standard data module for a project, choose FileNewOtherDelphi ProjectsDelphi FilesData Module. The IDE opens a data module container on the desktop, displays the unit file for the new module in the Code editor, and adds the module to the current project.

At design time, a data module looks like a standard form with a white background and no alignment grid. As with forms, you can place nonvisual components from the Tool palette onto a module, and edit their properties in the Object Inspector. You can resize a data module to accommodate the components you add to it.

You can also right-click a module to display a context menu for it. The following table summarizes the context menu options for a data module.

Context menu options for data modules

Menu item | Purpose
Edit | Displays a context menu with which you can cut, copy, paste, delete, and select the components in the data module.
Position | Aligns nonvisual components to the module's invisible grid (Align To Grid) or according to criteria you supply in the Alignment dialog box (Align).
Tab Order | Enables you to change the order that the focus jumps from component to component when you press the tab key.
Creation Order | Enables you to change the order that data access components are created at start-up.
Revert to Inherited | Discards changes made to a module inherited from another module in the Object Repository, and reverts to the originally inherited module.
Add to Repository | Stores a link to the data module in the Object Repository.
View as Text | Displays the text representation of the data module's properties.
Text DFM | Toggles between the formats (binary or text) in which this particular form file is saved.

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Using Data Modules and Remote Data Modules

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