Determine Parent Component

Question

We have TToolbarButton(s) on a toolbar, each with it's own associated TPopupMenu. The popup menus are all the same so we would like to have only one menus for all the toolbar buttons. The problem I have is determining which ToolbarButton invoked the popup menu.

I've tried the following, but I keep getting an access violation.

...

with (Sender as TPopupMenu) do
  ShowMessage((GetParentComponent as TPopupMenu).Name);

...

Any ideas how to get the parent of the popup menu?

Thanks, Pieter.

Menus don't have parents. You ay want the component *associated* with the menu, but there's no parent-child relationship involved. — Rob Kennedy, May 09 '09 at 14:53

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '09 at 09:47

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Try

  with (sender as  TPopupMenu)  do
      ShowMessage(PopupComponent.Name);

That should give you the TToolButton that was pressed.

answered May 09 '09 at 09:47

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Unfortunately PopupComponent.Name returns the Toolbar name and not the ToolbuttonName. It works ok on a ListBox. Pieter. – Pieter van Wyk May 10 '09 at 07:20

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