[Lazarus] How to clone a component
Mattias Gaertner
nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Fri Oct 5 08:42:23 CEST 2012
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:29:25 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> patspiper schrieb:
>
> > The copied (original) component's events are fine. However, it is the
> > clone's events which are not as desired. Its methods code+data are equal
> > to the original component's methods code+data whereas the data part
> > should point to the clone itself for proper operation of the clone. Any
> > ideas on how this should be handled?
>
> I don't think that the clipboard should contain pointers, which become
> invalid as soon as the referenced form is closed.
The lfm stream does not contain pointers.
The reader has just the wrong root component.
> The data pointer should refer to the *form* containing the cloned
> component. When that form doesn't have the named method, the handler
> reference may be cleared.
Mattias
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