[Lazarus] Is there aTDBLabel?

[Frans]

Thanks Michael, I will do the same. And the use of colors is very nice.

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Frans van Leeuwen
M 06-51695390

Op 09-03-2016 om 20:59 schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Frans wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I use Lazarus 1.6 on Windows 7.
>> I've used lazdatadesktop to change the Displaylabel of the DB fields. In a DBGrid that new names 
>> popup as the column names. But in a form with TDBEdit fields I can't use a TDBLabel that 
>> automatically takes the name from the associated Control as the caption. Instead, I placed TLabel 
>> components and made the following method:
>>
>> procedure TMyForm.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
>> var
>>  l: TLabel;
>> begin
>>  for TComponent(l) in Self do
>>  begin
>>    if (l is TLabel) and (l.FocusControl is TDBEdit) then
>>      l.Caption := TDBEdit(l.FocusControl).Field.DisplayLabel;
>>    if (l is TLabel) and (l.FocusControl is TDBLookupComboBox) then
>>      l.Caption := TDBLookupComboBox(l.FocusControl).Field.DisplayLabel;
>>  end;
>> end;
>>
>> It works. But still I wonder, is there a another way? I've tried TDBText but that shows th field 
>> value, not the DisplayLabel.
>
> There is no standard control for it. But it should in fact be easy to add to
> the LCL.
>
> I have a very large application in which I do the same, but I had to develop
> my own TLabel subclass for this. (It also switches color when the field is
> required etc.)
>
> Michael.
>
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