Question

i dont have much time, i will try to get right to the point.

(This is all design-time, refreshing the DFM with alt+F12 2x)

Normally, i get this (What i want):

object Form1: TForm1
   object Father: TFather
      object Son: TSon
      end
   end
end

When i refresh the dfm, and the Delphi Reader runs… i get that:

object Form1: TForm1
   object Father: TFather
   end
   object Son: TSon
   end
end

Why the son get out of the father? I am setting Father the Owner of Son at the moment of Son’s creation.

I need to do something else? I also tried to override GetOwner of Son, but with no success.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The information stored in the dfm is only what you design. The nesting is about parent/child relations, not about ownership. This dfm suggests that Son is no longer the Parent of Father. This may be caused by code in TSon that modifies it’s own parent.