[Lazarus] How change Hint of the controls at design time?

[fluisgirardi at gmail.com]

I'm doing some tests here extending the TComponentEditor...

2010/8/19 fluisgirardi at gmail.com <fluisgirardi at gmail.com>:
> I think in extend TComponentEditor, but I don't know how this class
> works in the designer
>
> 2010/8/19 Mattias Gärtner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
>> Zitat von Paul Ishenin <webpirat at mail.ru>:
>>
>>>  19.08.2010 21:39, fluisgirardi at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My idea is show others properties, not only position, size and
>>>> taborder, properties
>>>> that are present in default LCL.
>>>>
>>>> On my project, I link windows controls (edits, labels and others) with
>>>> variables
>>>> stored in others devices (like sensors). So I want add in hint the device
>>>> variable is linked with the control. The developer will only move the
>>>> mouse over
>>>> the control to see the linked variable and not select it to see in
>>>> object inspector
>>>> what's the variable.
>>>
>>> This is not possible yet. But probably implementation will not take much
>>> time. You can look at designer.pas unit to see how we show hints now.
>>
>> Either TComponentEditor can be extended or a global event can be added.
>>
>>
>> Mattias
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