Re: [DUG]: Circular unit references - gotta love'm!

[Aaron Scott-Boddendijk]

> Whew! I feel slightly vindicated about my comment about circular
> references usually indicating a problem with design.

> The place I encounter it most often is with people who have a zillion
> forms, all of which have references to one another. Yuck!

one gripe I have relating to forms is the automatic adding to the DPR
file of

Application.CreateForm(TFormX,FormX);

since most of my forms are designed to be reused they do not have
a form object variable at all as these are created on the fly either as
local variables or structures like

with TFormX.Create(nil) do try
  if ShowModal(MyParameter)=mrOK then...
finally
end;

Another one is the naming scopes for components when hijacking controls
off another form can get you into trouble especially if you're a keen user of
actionlists and often don't name your Toolbar buttons since all interaction is
managed by the actionlist.  Forms don't like having 2 components named the
same even if the duplication is 'owned' on another form...

--
Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Jump Productions
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