How to create composite controls?

Question

Can anybody point to some (thick) books (even web sites) that explain how to create your own composite controls (for example a TPanel that is the parent for several other controls) in all its glory?

I mean something beyond Borland's "Component Writers Guide".

I have seen here on StackOverflow LOTS of posts about this topic and in every single one of them people are contradicting about the constructors, inheritance, where/when to initialize code, streaming issues, order of events, parenting, etc

Answer 1

One that helped me a lot is Hidden Paths of Delphi 3 (Ray Lischner):

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Paths-Delphi-Experts-Wizards/dp/0965736601/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387298207&sr=1-7&keywords=delphi+ray

And:

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Developer-Developing-Custom-Components/dp/1576101126/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387298207&sr=1-3&keywords=delphi+ray

There is this one that a never read, but sounds interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Custom-Delphi-Components-Creating/dp/1883577470/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387298207&sr=1-4&keywords=delphi+ray

Answer 2

I have found that there is a sourceforge repository for the CCPack.

There is even the packages for many delphi versions.

I have installed on Delphi XE2 and it was needed a simple fix for working (the registering call is not right, it gives a compile time error, i dont remember exactly, but easy correction)

I could install and works as expected. I have made several simple components and a composite one using it and worked.

CCPack on SourceForge