Re: When to create TCustomControl's child controls?

As I've demonstrated, you can use CreateWND, but then your dimensions
are 0 unless you've specified default values beforehand, which I did in
Create. The advantage of doing it this way is that those values are can
be automatically overridden when the control is streamed in, but are
still available should you choose dynamic creation.

Another, though clunky, method, is to use Paint as your common hook,
although you need a variable and a test for it in Paint, for example:

Type TMyControl = class(TCustomControl);
private
fControlInitialised : Boolean;
Procedure InitControl;
.
protected
Procedure Paint; override;
.
.
end;
..
..
..

Procedure TMyControl.Paint;
begin
if not fControlInitialized then InitControl;
..
..// do your painting as usual
..
end

Procedure TMyControl.InitControl;
begin
// create your objects and so on
.
.
fControlinitialised := true;

end;

As you can see it's not the most efficient way of doing it, although it
might be the most intuitive for novices.

.

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