Submitted by prashant_agr on Sun, 2007-05-06 14:05.
When designing forms, you often use panels as "containers" to hold other components. But later on, it's sometimes confusing to find out who is the parent of a component... Is it the form that holds a certain edit-box or button, or is there a panel that is "holding" these components?
To quickly find out your component's parent, just select the component whose parent you wish to find and press the Escape key. The procedure can be used repeatedly: finally the ultimate parent, the Form, is selected into the Object Inspect
Re: How to select component's parent in Delphi?
When designing forms, you often use panels as "containers" to hold other components. But later on, it's sometimes confusing to find out who is the parent of a component... Is it the form that holds a certain edit-box or button, or is there a panel that is "holding" these components?
To quickly find out your component's parent, just select the component whose parent you wish to find and press the Escape key. The procedure can be used repeatedly: finally the ultimate parent, the Form, is selected into the Object Inspect