[Lazarus] TControl.IsParentShowHint

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

zeljko schrieb:
> On Wednesday 26 of October 2011 03:35:31 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> 
>  > This method looks as if it could be removed. A property ParentShowHint
> 
>  > exists already, which does exactly the same.
> 
> 
> This method is added because code from application.inc must access 
> parentshowhint from TControl, but it's protected there, so 
> IsParentShowHint is introduced.

Okay so far, I missed the different visibility.

BTW such problems make it impossible to implement another (Delphi 
compatible) DragManager :-(


> I didn't want to change visibility of ParentShowHint in TControl, so 
> added IsParentShowHint.

Why not implement it as just another property?

   public property IsParentShowHint read FParentShowHint;

DoDi