On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:33:18 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 June 2010 22:55, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > I other words: There are two tree like structures: Owner and Parent. > > Parent is optional and will make your stream files more readable. > > > >[...] > > > > Readability. > > I can't think that's the reason. D1 thru D5 (or D7) saved dfm files in > binary format. So there was no readability to speak of. Afaik the you had always the possibility to edit the form as text format. The binary format had a few advantages when saving to disk. > Also the only people that actually look (and care) about the dfm/lfm > files are the IDE designers. Normal developers almost never look > inside those files (unless something major screwed up - in which case > they should have made backups). Almost never is not never. I guess almost every developer has looked it it. There is also another reason: The parent property is set before all other. This is important to reduce overhead, especially on the early windows versions. >[...] Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
