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Denville Longhurs

CBuilder Developer
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:02:45 GMT

Design-time info

Hi

Can anyone suggest how my component can get at its parent's properties at
design-time, so that it can (eg) automatically centre or scale its size ??

It seems that properties such as Parent are NULL at design-time, and methods
such as GetParentComponent and even form->FindComponent don't work.

Right-clicking on the component and bringing up the component editor allows
me to perform alignment tasks, so it should be possible.

Thanks,
Denville.

 
Remy Lebea

CBuilder Developer
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:44:35 GMT

Re:Design-time info


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"Denville Longhurst" <Denvi...@metco.co.uk> wrote in message

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> It seems that properties such as Parent are NULL at design-time, and
methods
> such as GetParentComponent and even form->FindComponent don't work.

I don't know why it would be doing that for you, because Parent is indeed
valid during design time.

Gambit

Denville Longhurs

CBuilder Developer
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:13:57 GMT

Re:Design-time info


Thanks.  I should have said that Parent appears to be NULL within the
constructor, since that is where I was trying to do the clever bit.

Cheers,
Denville.

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Remy Lebeau wrote in message <95frf0$j...@bornews.inprise.com>...

>"Denville Longhurst" <Denvi...@metco.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:95f0u2$31l12@bornews.inprise.com...

>> It seems that properties such as Parent are NULL at design-time, and
>methods
>> such as GetParentComponent and even form->FindComponent don't work.

>I don't know why it would be doing that for you, because Parent is indeed
>valid during design time.

>Gambit

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