Questions tagged [townedcollection]

TOwnedCollection is a TCollection descendant maintaining an "Owner" in order to obtain property path information at design-time. It is defined in Classes.pas unit.

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How to invoke a component's property editor at design time

I have created a component derived from TCustomPanel. On that panel I have a published property of a class derived from TOwnedCollection. All is working well and clicking the ellipsis in the object inspector for that property opens the default…
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Using TOwnedCollection descendant in Delphi

I'm trying to create a custom component with a collection property. However if I try to open the collection editor during design time by clicking "..." button in object inspector, nothing happens. What I am missing? Here's my TCollection…
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delphi TCollection count not increasing after Add

i have the types TNotifyReply = class(TCollectionItem) TNotifyReplylist = class(TOwnedCollection) NotifyReplylist := TNotifyReplylist.Create(self, TNotifyReply); After calling this function (Any number of times), Count it still zero function…
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TCollection PropertyEditor with editable Columns

for my own TCollection descendant I want to extend the collection property editor. I want to see more columns for other properties of my TCollectionItem. And I am a lucky because it is pretty easy. The only thing I want to do was to override these…
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How to add a 2-times derived class of TCollectionItem to TOwnedCollection?

I want to implement a collection or list using TOwnedCollection / TCollectionItem. I need a persistent list (to load and create from a FileStream) of classes with polymorphism. Here is (part of) my code so far, but I didn't succeed to create the…
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Using TCollection with an already-defined class

(Note: This is somewhat related to my last question). I am new to using TCollection in Delphi, and am still wrapping my head around the various ways to handle one-to-many class/property-item relationships. Exploring TCollection and TCollectionItem,…
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