On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > > At worst, I just need methods to be inherited from a base form > > > > and appears to be working, but I was curious as to the "Visual" > > > > part of VFI at design time or if that will be planned? > > > > > > AFAIK there are two things missing: > > > - Easy creating descendant forms via 'New ...' dialog > > > > But this is the essence of VFI ? > > Without this, how can one say that VFI works ? > > Oh, come on. This is too simple. > You can already create easily any kind of inherited component. Just > close the designer form and change the ancestor in the source. I didn't know that this "works", hence my question :-) > The only > missing thing is a dialog, that do this in on step. > I already wondered why you didn't provide a dialog yourself. You wrote > the project templates, so I know you are skilled. Thank you for the confidence... The point was simply that I didn't know the above works. I always wondered what exactly you meant with "VFI works" :) > Anyway, here is "the essence": > I found a nice patch for this in bug 1287. I simplified and extended it > and now you can inherit forms, datamodules, frames and custom component > classes via the new dialog. Great news, I'll test it ASAP :-) > Lazarians are spoiled. I know this since a long time, even without VFI :-) Now we need to convince the rest of the world of this :-) Michael. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
