At 04:27 PM 7/4/97 +0200, Frank Heckenbach heckenb@mi.uni-erlangen.de wrote:

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Right, only published propertied show up in the object inspector. I think for now, in GPC anyway, allow 'published' and treat it as a 'public'. When GPC moves to X-windows or gains a visual/graphical development tool, we should be able to utilize it better.

Good idea. However, what is this object inspector, anyway? To me, it sounded like a development tool, but now it seems like it's something used at runtime, right? What do programs do with it? -- Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany heckenb@mi.uni-erlangen.de http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~heckenb/links.htm

The Object Inspector is a development tool that allows the developer to 'non-programaticaly' set the properties of an object before instantiation. Here is a quick example:

... published Caption : string; Status : (Maximized, Minimized, DontKnow); SomeNum : integer; ... Lets say the above is part of an object that can be 'dragged' onto the desired window. (Yes, I know I am talking Windows here) Selecting the object after it is dragged onto the window will make the 'object inspector' display all 'published' properties of that object. The object inspector will allow the programmer to enter some string for Caption, select one of the enumerated values for Status, and an integer for SomeNum. At run-time the object inspector don't exist. It is strictly part of the Delphi (and C++ builder) development tool. You can also attach specialized editors for complex properties. The inspector also allows the programmer to attach functions and procedures to events but that is VERY windows based due to the message passing nature of the Windows OS.

Later... Ken L kc7rad@vegasnet.net klinder@hn.com