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2003-11-19 07:37:53 AM
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Richard Grossman writes:
waste any time on this keyword.
JED
 

Wouldn't it be nice if you could do this (for example) in a unit outside
of the one containing dmMyDataModule:
with dmMyDataModule do begin
// right here:
.
Within the "with", you could type a "." and then get the same popup
choices as when you type:
dmMyDataModule.
?
 

hi,
before properties in the with statement.
It's muc more logical in my eyes as I can divide properties and other
objects by that.
Alex
 

 

Richard Grossman writes:
evaluation" feature doesn't work with "with" statements. I believe this
is because the language parser doesnt't report this information for some
reason.
--
Eugene Mayevski
EldoS Corp., CTO
Security and networking solutions
www.eldos.com
 

In article <3fbab84c$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, XXXX@XXXXX.COM
says...
 

"Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
"with ..." block, why can not the tool tip software figure it out enough to
show the current value (at runtime)? That would be a great timesaver,
especially if you inherit code which uses several nested variable names in a
single "with ..".
Kirk Halgren
"If I were two-faced, do you think I would be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
 

Peter Zolja writes:
 

One of the problems with "with" block is that it is not possible to get
a reference to the object in question. For example, if you have a
TList that keeps pointers to instances of TMyObject you have to do
this:
mo: TMyObject;
mo := TMyObject.Create;
MyList.Add( mo );
Doing the same in with block only is not possible:
with TMyObject.Create do
MyList.Add( ????? );
A solution might be to add a method to TObject (TObject.Instance for
example) that allways returns "self". This way, one can do
with TMyObject.Create do
MyList.Add( Instance );
I suggested this long time ago (don't recall if it made it into QC),
but I see no reaction to it. I know I needed it so many times. Anyone
else?
lc
 

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:08:38 -0500, lc <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes:
MyList.Add( TMyObject.Create );
No reference required at all.
John Leavey
 

Why not:
with TMyObject(MyList.Add(TMyObject.Create)) do
...
Sure, it looks a bit uggly. <G>
DL