Owners and Parents Was: Re: [lazarus] Creating Components...

[Jeffrey A. Wormsley]

>For instance if you execute the following in a OnCreate event an instance
>of the button is created, but no Graphical/Windows part.
>  TButton.Create(Self);
>
>If you pass a parent, the graphical part gets created as well.
>  TButton.Create(Self).Parent := Self;

How is this supposed to be handled?  If I understand correctly, windows
will automatcally destroy any window children when the parent destroy is
called.  If you create a window with no parent, this does not happen.  How
do you, after the create, tell a window that it has a parent, when it did
not have one when it was created?

Jeff.