Hi,

   Lets say I have a control I derived from TWinControl.  Now this
contol creates widgets derived from TPerisistent.  They are much like
TSpeedButtons but I don't want to derive from TControl for these Widgets
as I am drawing them directly and don't want the extra overhead the VCL
introduces.  I don't want them to be stand alone, they belong to the
main control and it knows best how to manipulate and paint them.  The
only issuse I have is interacting with the widget.  Is is possible to
interact with a TPersistent or maybe TComponent object that is the child
of another control at design time?  The main thing I need to do is to be
able to add a some why for the components user to assign actions and
click events to the widgets (maybe actions are not possible deriving
from a class higher than TControl?)  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim

If you derive from TControl or TGraphiccontrol that would all be
automatic. If you don't you have to implement it all yourself. In this
case i would probably opt for making the widgets TCollectionItem
descendents and store them into a TCollection exposed as a published
property.

This is actually a question better served in
delphi.vcl.components.writing, IMO.

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Thank you and yes I know, that was where I thought I was posting.  Once
I realized I tried to cancel it but Netscape said I did not have the
authorization so I let it stand.

Jim