How do I 'revert to inherited' if control is not clickable?

Question

Assume the following situation:

FrmBase has a TPanel named PnlClient, align alClient
FrmDescendant inherits from FrmBase
In FrmDescendant I change a PnlClient property
In FrmDescendant I place another control (say another TPanel named PnlDescendant) on PnlClient and align it alClient.
PnlDescendant now completely covers PnlClient
I place lots of other components on PnlDescendant, not necessarily aligned, so I'm afraid to change PnlDescendant (e.g. setting align to alNone and resizing) and lose positions

How can I execute 'revert to inherited' for PnlClient?
There's nothing in the main menu, or in the popup menu for the controls in the Structure View...

Currently using Delphi 10.4.1 Sydney

Andreas Rejbrand · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-28T15:05:15.990

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This is easy for a keyboard user like myself:

Click on PnlDescendant in the form editor to make it the focused and selected control.
Press Esc to select its parent, PnlClient.
Press the Menu key on your keyboard to display the context menu of PnlClient. If you have a cheap keyboard without a Menu key, press Shift+F10 instead.
Click on "Revert to Inherited". (Or, much faster: press the menu item's underlined character, probably I.)
(But notice that this will remove PnlDescendant completely. Probably you didn't want that, but that's how it works.)

edited Nov 28 '20 at 15:05

answered Nov 28 '20 at 14:51

Andreas Rejbrand

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In other setups, you might also use the Tab key to move between sibling controls. You can see in the **Structure** tree view which one is currently focused. Tab your way through to the right one and press the Menu key (or Shift+F10). – Andreas Rejbrand Nov 28 '20 at 14:58
The *menu* key! Wow, I have never used that ;-) – Jan Doggen Nov 28 '20 at 15:16
And thanks for mentioning point 5. It was not a good example in the question. – Jan Doggen Nov 28 '20 at 15:17
Actually, I use it almost daily (for instance, when I typeset mathematical formulae in Microsoft Word). – Andreas Rejbrand Nov 28 '20 at 15:19

How do I 'revert to inherited' if control is not clickable?

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