What is the recommended way to customize a component in Lazarus?

Question

I need to customize TStringGrid for my application. What is the recommended way to do it?

The only thing I have seen is to put the TMyStringGrid to a package, install it to IDE and than use it in my application. The problem is that I am working on that component at the same time as on the application and I do not want to reinstall the component every time I do any change in it just to test it.

When I tried to put it to my project it said: "Sharing code between packages and application source is not good idea."

Answer 1

While testing, don't use it designtime, but instantiate it runtime.