[Lazarus] VFI

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> 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?

Registering a custom form in the IDE, I suppose.

See the components/customform package. It demonstrates how to add your own
forms to the IDE File-New menu.

The projecttemplates package also shows this, but it is more hard to follow.

Michael.