[fpc-pascal] When do I need a component rather than a plain object?

2010-11-14 Thread Frank Church
Does TObject have all the capabilities of TComponent apart from things like streaming and being used from the IDE component palette? I want to create an object which has all the capabilities like getting and setting properties, and I want to know whether I need to inherit from TObject or from

Re: [fpc-pascal] When do I need a component rather than a plain object?

2010-11-14 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Frank Church wrote: Does TObject have all the capabilities of TComponent apart from things like streaming and being used from the IDE component palette? I want to create an object which has all the capabilities like getting and setting properties, and I want to know