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Getting Started with Lazarus IDE

You're reading from   Getting Started with Lazarus IDE Get to grips with the basics of programming, debugging, creating, and documenting projects with the Lazarus IDE

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782163404
Length 116 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Events with more parameters


You probably noticed that the OnChange event only had one parameter, which was Sender and is of the type Object. Most of the time, this is adequate, but there may be times when we want to send other parameters into an event. In those cases, TNotifyEvent is not an adequate type, and we will need to define a new type. The new type will need to be a method pointer type, which is similar to a procedural type but has the keyword of object at the end of the declaration. In the case of TMessageLog, we may need to perform some action before or after a message is written to the file. To do this, we will need to declare two method pointers, TBeforeWriteMsgEvent and TAfterWriteMsgEvent , both of which will be triggered in another method named WriteMessage. The modification of our code will look as follows:

type
  TBeforeWriteMsgEvent = procedure(var Msg: String; var OKToWrite: Boolean) of Object; 
  TAfterWriteMsgEvent = procedure(Msg: String) of Object;
TmessageLog = class...
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