Hi, This is not really related to Lazarus, but only me asking for advice from developers that handled this issue before that I have now.
I created (ported) a very basic GUI Designer for the fpGUI toolkit. Purely for the purpose of speeding up some form designs. It generates the Form and containing components as code in a source unit. Not as a external *.lfm file like Lazarus and Delphi does. The designer inserts Begin/End comment markers to know what section it maintains and supports multiple forms in a single source unit. I use Form Inheritance a lot in my applications. Currently my GUI Designer doesn't support Visual Form Inheritance, though it doesn't crash reading and building the form either. I would like to implement VFI in my GUI Designer, but have a few questions. What is the process flow Lazarus uses to build up a designer form that implements form inheritance? eg: * The order of loading the form into the gui designer form? * How does it know which unit contains the parent class? * How does it track changes made to components implemented in the parent class? * How does it know what components are from parent forms and what are newly introduced? Thanks for you time, - Graeme - -- fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
