Accessing protected properties in decendants
lazarus / 31-LCL

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chucky · 2013-04-16 16:55

I am trying to derive a new class based on TCustomView. I thought a
descendant could access any protected properties but when I add a
statement like ListView1.ViewStyle := vsReport I get the compiler
error: Error: identifer idents no member "ViewStyle"

When I derive from TListView (which publishes the property ViewStyle
it compiles just fine.

Is there something I am not doing right? I am using 1.0.8

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Blaazen · 2013-04-16 17:19

I think the it also depends if the descendant class is in the same
unit. What happens if you add this:
Code: [Select]public
  property ViewStyle;Can you then access it?

EDIT: I tried to derive class from TCustomListView and ViewStyle is
perfectly accessible, code is compilable, works well.

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Leledumbo · 2013-04-17 00:03

QuoteTCustomViewDid you mean TCustomListView? It should work, try
showing your code.