[Lazarus] Visual Form Inheritance

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> > > > 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 ?
> 
> Oh, come on. This is too simple. 
> You can already create easily any kind of inherited component. Just
> close the designer form and change the ancestor in the source. 
 
I didn't know that this "works", hence my question :-)
 
> The only
> missing thing is a dialog, that do this in on step.
> I already wondered why you didn't provide a dialog yourself. You wrote
> the project templates, so I know you are skilled.

Thank  you for the confidence...

The point was simply that I didn't know the above works.
I always wondered what exactly you meant with "VFI works" :)

> Anyway, here is "the essence":
> I found a nice patch for this in bug 1287. I simplified and extended it
> and now you can inherit forms, datamodules, frames and custom component
> classes via the new dialog.

Great news, I'll test it ASAP :-)
 
> Lazarians are spoiled.

I know this since a long time, even without VFI :-)

Now we need to convince the rest of the world of this :-)

Michael.