I think I should be able to do this without asking for help, but sometimes
the old brain just gets stuck.

I'm using a virtual tree to display and edit some data.

Each node has some data associated with it, and I use a record and a pointer
to that record to get the data.

If you are used to using Virtual Trees, you will know what I mean.

I've subclassed the form, overridden then GetNodeDataSize method, but since
the Tree.GetNodeData method always refers to a pointer to a record, I'm a
little bit stumped on how to add some extra fields to that record.

e.g.
  TOriginalNodeData = record
    id : integer;
   value : double;
  end;
  pOriginalNodeData = ^TOriginalNodeData;

Then with my subclass, the node data looks like this:

  TNewNodeData = record
    id : integer;
    value : double;
    valueInherited : boolean;
  end;

But this means that I have to re-declare all of the old fields in my new
record, and if the original record changes, things are going to go BANG.

I can declare

  TNewNodeData = record
    OldStuff : TOriginalNodeData;
    valueInherited : boolean;
  end;

and this works, but means I have to dereference OldStuff all of the time.

I'm sure that variant records should allow me to do what I want, but I'm
really stuck on how to declare it.

Any ideas?

Trevor


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