form inheritance

Normally inheritance an replication does work; but i've done a proper inheritance about a year ago. (at that point it does work normally) and replication does work as one would expect.

After adding and resorting a lot of buttons/ menu items etc within the last year, this inheritance does 'break'; after adding the inherited button manually within the proper place within the text dfm file, it does appear and works.

My point is, this 'auto' inheritence does have limitations, but I do not know what they are. Searching where a button has to reside within the dfm file, is quite a lot of work.

Regards

andries

David Cornelius <devcorneliusconcepts.com> wrote: If buttons added to one form don't automatically and immediately show up on
a second form, then the second form is not truly inherited from the first.

To illustrate form inheritance, create a new project with a form and a
button on it, and save it. Then click File > New, select the tab listing
your application name, select the form and click OK (notice the only
available option at the bottom is inherit). Now, whatever you do to the
first form is immediately replicated to the inherited form.


David Cornelius
Cornelius Concepts, Inc.
http://corneliusconcepts.com <http://corneliusconcepts.com/&gt;
Software Development, Databases, Websites

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From: Andries Bos [mailto:andriesbosyahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:41 AM
To: delphi advanced group
Subject: [delphi-en] form inheritance

I have a form that inherits all buttons etc from a main form; also onto this
second form , i've added different other buttons etc.

How could I force an added button onto the ancestor form (form1) to be also
visibile within the second form. I've edited the dfm file by hand in the
past to use the "inherited button&quot; , but I think there should be an easier
way to let a new button be visible onto the second form.

What should be the proper way to do this?

regards

Andries Bos

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