On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:19:28 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 18:47 +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Ah, well, that is a simple solution. ;) > > I did say that fpGUI's UI Designer was simple. :) I will also say that > the difference between Owner and Parent is highly overrated in VCL and > LCL. Yes I fully understand the difference between them in the context > of VCL and LCL. I just don't see a need for that in fpGUI, or even > VCL/LCL. So fpGUI treats Owner = Parent. I would have loved to get rid > of Owner, but unfortunately that is hardwired into TComponent (which is > a base class I use in fpGUI). So when you create a component and set the > Owner, fpGUI will automatically set the Parent for you, to match that > Owner. The "simple solution" was about not supporting references between components. The Owner/Parent was just one example. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
