Hi all,
Is there an ETA as to when the ability to visually assign properties from another form/datmodule will be operational? At the moment I'm having to do it code, which is a viable work-around, but it would be nice for it to work the way Delphi does.

Dominique.

Not long ago Mattias started a thread about this feature. He implemented it and asked to test. First of all you should use lazarus from svn repositore (iow latest 0.9.25). Next, you should recompile an ide with special switch: -dEnableMultiFormProperties. Look at this mail list thread called "Need testers" from 29.04.2008

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Thanks for that, totally missed that thread. Great to hear that it's already partly operational.

Dominique.

Dominique,

Can you provide a pointer to this functionality in Delphi? It may be that I already know what this is but under another name, but I don't think so.

I'm curious as to what it actually does.

Hi Lee,
It basically just allows you to ( for example ) assign a property in say form1 to something in form2 or a datamodule from within the object inspector. Say you have loads of non-visual components centralised in a datamodule. Well from your main form you can hook up to events, properties etc in the datamodule from the main form's object inspector, hence visually assigning them.

IHTH

Dominique.

OH! You mean how assign the database property of a query form1 to the database component that may be sited on datamodule1. I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about some kind of utility function that I had missed for copying properties from one component to another.

Thanks, sorry about the mix up.