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Accessing protected properties

Ever wanted to access the Canvas property of a TPanel. Or any other protected property of a class. Ever wanted to access the Canvas property of a TPanel, or any other protected property of a class. There is a way of doing it without having to create and install your own descendant of TPanel. Here is an example of accessing the Canvas property of a TPanel. Near the TYPE declaration of your form do Type THackPanel = class(TPanel) end; in your code do With THackPanel(MyPanel).Canvas do begin // etc etc end;