Thanks Myles
You have probably saved me a day of angst
Regards
Neven
----- Original Message -----
From: Myles Penlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 09:52
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Thanks Carl
> Take your pick of how you do it. Depends on your requirements.
>
> Method A) - Suitable for a single project.
> Copy the VCL source file to your project directory, make your changes.
Just
> becomes another unit in your project. This always works and always uses
the
> copy of the unit in your project directory.
>
> Method B).
> Create another directory with all your changed VCL source code. Adjust
your
> IDE paths etc so that this directory appears before the other directories.
>
> Method C).
> Change the VCL source in place, and adjust your environment paths
> (Debug/Library/Browse/search) to include the VCL source code.
>
> It is normally very useful to keep the original VCL source, as patches
> always look for this to modify. SO it makes methods A & B better from this
> point of view.
>
> When you say use Debug DCU's, all this does is add the path
> $(DELPHI)\Lib\Debug to the front of your library path. You can if you want
> to update the debug DCU's it's up to you.
>
> Myles.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neven MacEwan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:49 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Thanks Carl
> >
> > So Myles
> >
> > Being a virgin in this area - do you just alter the pas and compile? or
> > is there some process to keep the lib and lib\debug dcu's updated
> >
> > Regards
> > Neven
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Myles Penlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 09:17
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Thanks Carl
> >
> >
> > > That's why we have to change the VCL source all the time ...
> > >
> > > I actually put in a bug request about one of these a couple of years
> > ago,
> > > and yep in the next release it went from private to protected.
> > >
> > > Myles.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Neven MacEwan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:21 AM
> > > > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > > > Subject: [DUG]: Thanks Carl
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Carl
> > > >
> > > > You put me on the right track - a csDesigning conditioned call reset
> > the
> > > > mask
> > > >
> > > > Just as an aside The TFieldDataLink is a globally used component but
> > > > TDBEdit
> > > > uses FModified - a private
> > > > variable the B#$%**
> > > >
> > > > You would think that is the VCL coders had to make direct reference
to
> > a
> > > > private variable they could at least write
> > > > a function to access it
> > > >
> > > > Regards Neven
> > > > N.K. MacEwan B.E. E&E
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
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