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In some of my TCollectionItem derived classes I override GetDisplayName so that the name shown in the IDE is meaningful for a user. This is very useful. Also when creating code for an event property on the TCollectionItem it uses that display name to name the method which is also very useful. In one of my TCollectionItem classes I am representing the definition of data attributes in a structured record. GetDisplayname was set to return the name of the attribute. To assist users who want to see an overall view of the definition without having to inspect each property at user request I changed the display name to the SQL definition for that attribute. This includes spaces, brackets and commas. This works and is very helpful for the users that requested it, but now the events are named based on the default display name (So instead of having something like CardCodeWriter I have something like TITIODataAttribute64Writer). Is there any way to supply a 'stub' for naming the events that's not the same as the result of the DisplayName?

I write property and component editors for the classes I define so that they can be edited in the IDE. When editing an object in the IDE's object inspector a standard TPersistent only exposes properties which are not events. However, some TPersistents (notably anything deriving from TCollectionItem) do expose events. I would like to have events declared on TPersistent derived objects editable, but I cannot discover what I need to do in my property / component editors so that the IDE will expose them. I would very much appreciate a link to a sample component / property editor that does this. Thanks in advance!

I just noticed in Rio 10.3.2 that the TFDSQLScript SQL editor has the Code Editor button in the String List Editor disabled. I popped up the help and there does not seem to be a reason for this. The SQL property is of type TSrings in the Inpsector and the actual implementation uses TFDStringList just the same as the connection Params ancestor class in which you can use the Code Editor. Is this a case of a missing property editor registration? It would be very nice to be able to use the Code Editor to modify scripts instead of cop[y/pasting from an external editor.