[Lazarus] Challenge of converting a Delphi project

[Juha Manninen]

Martin Schreiber wrote:
> uses
>  classes,mseclasses,msegui;
> type
>  twidget1 = class(twidget);
>  tcustomframe1 = class(tcustomframe);
> 
> [...]
> 
>  twidget1(thewidget).dosomething();
>  tcustomframe1(frame).dosomeother();

It is kind of dirty trick but now when think of it, it is rather reliable if 
the class structure doesn't change completely.
Like in case of EssModel, it was used to reach the members of TControl. All 
visual components are derived from TControl and that is not likely to change.

So, this trick is not something that will break the code at any moment in 
future, after all.


Juha