How to auto update many descendants forms after ancerstor form had an control deleted?

Asked Jan 18 '16 at 13:44

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Suppose a TAncestorForm with an extra button (or any other control). If I remove the button, whenever I open a descendant of TAncestorForm the Delphi IDE shows a message "Ancestor component not found..." and let me choose:

Remove the reference;
Tell that the component was renamed and what is it's new name;
Recreate the component;

I want the first option. There is any other option that would do this automatically instead of opening all descendants (like dozens of them) and clicking in each message?

asked Jan 18 '16 at 13:44

EMBarbosa

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Write a script to do the work for you – David Heffernan Jan 18 '16 at 13:59
@DavidHeffernan: Which scripting framework do you have in mind? – MartynA Jan 18 '16 at 14:17
@MartynA Anything you fancy. I personally would use a crude regex in Python. – David Heffernan Jan 18 '16 at 14:18
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You could use [DFMCheck](http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/ide-tools/dfmcheck/) to get all forms opened and closed automatically. You'd still have to click the Remove button for each affected form, though. – Uli Gerhardt Jan 18 '16 at 14:48
Perhaps an AHK script could do the remove button pressing automatically – David Heffernan Jan 18 '16 at 14:54
@DavidHeffernan So, I think the short answer is "no", but long answer is "maybe, if you do forge one tool for you"? – EMBarbosa Jan 18 '16 at 17:56
@UliGerhardt Yes. But I was thinking on anything that really avoided the clicking annoyance. – EMBarbosa Jan 18 '16 at 17:57
@EmBarbosa I'm sure AHK can do the clicking for you – David Heffernan Jan 18 '16 at 18:01
@DavidHeffernan Yes, got that. Thank you. But I was thinking on how to propose an answer to this question on SO's guidelines that could be useful to further readers. (: – EMBarbosa Jan 18 '16 at 18:07
I'm not sure that this question is going to be useful to many others – David Heffernan Jan 18 '16 at 18:13
And let this be a lesson as to one of the reasons form inheritance is not quite as cool as it first appears. – Disillusioned Jan 19 '16 at 07:54

How to auto update many descendants forms after ancerstor form had an control deleted?

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