[Lazarus] How to clone a component

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Thu Oct 4 08:19:30 CEST 2012


On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:33:07 +0300
patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What is the correct way to clone programmatically a component, ie assign 
> all its properties to another component of the same class (like the IDE 
> designer's copy/paste)?
> 
> The code below used to work in Delphi but does not with Lazarus (result 
> is nil).
>      RegisterClass(TMyComponent);
>      Clipboard.SetComponent(MyComponent);
>      Result:= TMyComponent(Clipboard.GetComponent(Self, Self));

It should work in Lazarus too.

Mattias




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