> -----Original Message----- From: David Brennan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, 21 September 2000 11:00
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Sorting a Collection
>
>
> Frustrating.
>
> Does anyone else find that Borland are a bit too fanatical about
> hiding things away as private declarations?
YES! YES! (I thought it was just me)
It is maddening sometimes to try to derive from some of
their classes (TDBCtrlGrid comes to mind)
>
> I've lost track of the number of times I wanted to extend something
> only to find the internal bits I needed were private. Sometimes you
> can get around it, but it's never as elegant as it could be. Would
> it hurt to have a few more things visible - perhaps a few read only
> protected properties would do?
Maybe they could charge a wee bit extra for a VCL version
with all the "private"s changed to "protected".
ns
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