tag as String

[Zakaria 0]

how add property tagString to all delphi Compememet

[PeterBelow 235]

8 minutes ago, Zakaria said:

how add property tagString to all delphi Compememet

If you want to be able to edit this new property in the IDE Object Inspector I don't see a way to do this since it would require not only a change of the source code of the TComponent class but also a rebuild of all design and run-time packages that use TComponent, and you do not have the source code for all of them, as far as I know.

 

If using this property in code would be enough there may be a way to fake it using a class helper for TComponent that uses the existing Tag property to store an index of the actual string held in some global container, like a TStringlist.

[Uwe Raabe 2044]

@PeterBelow It is even possible to inject new properties to the Object Inspector. In Cmon.DataSense.Design.pas I use this technique to add a DataSource and DataField property to supported controls. The additional data is stored in a special component (TDataSense) using a dictionary internally:

[eivindbakkestuen 47]

1 hour ago, Zakaria said:

how add property tagString to all delphi Compememet

What problem are you trying to solve?

[Brandon Staggs 246]

3 hours ago, Zakaria said:

how add property tagString to all delphi Compememet

The first step is to re-think whatever series of choices led to this abysmal state.

[Anders Melander 1759]

49 minutes ago, Brandon Staggs said:

whatever series of choices led to this abysmal state. 

*zing* 🔥