[Lazarus] VFI

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:20:43 +0200
Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I started to test the Visual Form Inheritance feature after reading about 
> Michael Van Canneyt's many forms.
> I never really used that feature in Delphi myself.
> 
> In:
>  File -> New... -> Inherited Item -> Inherited Component
> there are the existing forms of the current project. A new inherited form can 
> be made based on them.
> IMO the header "Inherited Component" is wrong. It should be "Inherited Form".

All designer base classes: forms, frames, datamodules and customs from
designer mediators.

> It is misleading because also components can be inherited but these are not 
> components.

?

> How to register other forms there?

What do you mean?

 
> I found:
>  http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Development#VFI_-
> _Visual_Form_Inheritance
> 
> which seems valid. The feature mostly works but has couple of small issues.

True.

Mattias