[Lazarus] TImage - Getting image properties in 'canvas space'

[Alberto Narduzzi]

>> But often (depending on the compiler) the mere declaration
>> of an empty derived class allows to access protected members of the base
>> class.
> What does depending on the compiler mean? The compiler is obviously FPC.
> If it is really true that you can access protected members in that way (like Svens message suggests) I consider this a bug.
> Like Mattias said, protected is of no real use in that case and we can just declare all non private members public.

I guess this must be considered a bug. You can indeed access protected 
members of parent classes, but only from within the (your derived) class 
members themselves, not from the outer world.
At least this I believe to e the meaning of having protected (me and my 
friends only), together with public (everybody) and private (me and only 
me).
Let alone published, there for IDE designers only.

Cheers, A.