[Lazarus] Visual Form Inheritance

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Mattias Gärtner wrote:

> Zitat von Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com>:
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I found the following bug report on mantis:
> > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=705
> >
> > Which seems to indicate that VFI is implemented, but I'm unsure as to the
> > what level it working from reading the comments.
> >
> > VFI works, but just not in the IDE at design time?  Meaning that I can
> > inherit from an ancestor form, but the ancestor's controls will not show up in
> design time, but are drawn at runtime?
> >
> > At worst, I just need methods to be inherited from a base form and appears to
> > be working, but I was curious as to the "Visual" part of VFI at design time or
> > if that will be planned?
> 
> AFAIK there are two things missing:
> - Easy creating descendant forms via 'New ...' dialog

But this is the essence of VFI ? 
Without this, how can one say that VFI works ?

Michael.