Assign the value of the field to Form Parent-CodePudding

In my application, I save the component names in a database for use in the future.
In the following example, I want to assign the value of the field from Table1 to the Form1.Parent:

Form1.Parent: = DM.Table1.FieldByName('NOM_PANEL').AsString;

I get the following message:

[dcc32 Error] UPrincipale.pas (794): E2010 Incompatible types: 'TWinControl' and 'string'

I have to convert String to TWinControl. How please resolve this problem ?
Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

To search for a component by its name, use its Owner's FindComponent() method, or its Parent's FindChildControl() method.

For example, let's say you want to assign Form2.Panel1 to Form1.Parent, and Panel1 is owned by Form2, and AsString returns just 'Panel1', then you would use:

Form1.Parent := Form2.FindComponent(DM.Table1.FieldByName('NOM_PANEL').AsString) as TWinControl;