Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Am 27.07.2015 11:37 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk: Now obviously I could have a separate property holding an enumeration, but it's a pity that it's not possible to do something like case MainForm.OutputComponent of TListBox: begin end;

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

2015-07-27 13:33 keltezéssel, Michael Schnell írta: I suppose you meant if Sender is TButton then { do something} ; -Michael Yes! -- Péter Gábor p...@freemail.hu -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Sorry about that - that message was supposed to be sent in reply to a message rhar came in right before one that was for this list. My Note 4 thought I was trying to reply a thread in the Lazarus group. -Chris On Jul 27, 2015 7:23 AM, Chris Kelling kelli...@cox.net wrote: We have one in

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

On 07/27/2015 07:47 AM, Péter Gábor wrote: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; I suppose you meant if Sender is TButton then { do something} ; OP: If you want to deal with a lot of different classes that might be the sender, it might help to define an array of these classes (types)

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: JuuS wrote: On 07/27/2015 09:31 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

We have one in Room B. It is Ed Sax's old machine. It is an early model that has the chicklett keyboard. About the only distinction tge PC Jr has is that is was a finacial failure. Both style of keyboards are wireless, but you had to have the keyboard aimed directly at the IR receiver on the

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Am 27.07.2015 12:06 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk: Péter Gábor wrote: If you use the classname property you can: case Sender.classname of 'TCheckBox': ShowMessage('This is a TCheckBox'); end; Good point. I wonder if that's mode-specific (language manual

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Péter Gábor wrote: If you use the classname property you can: case Sender.classname of 'TCheckBox': ShowMessage('This is a TCheckBox'); end; Good point. I wonder if that's mode-specific (language manual simply says Free Pascal allows). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT.

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be elegantly put into a case statement? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

JuuS wrote: On 07/27/2015 09:31 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be elegantly put into a case statement? Hi, I just

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: JuuS wrote: On 07/27/2015 09:31 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

If you use the classname property you can: case Sender.classname of 'TCheckBox': ShowMessage('This is a TCheckBox'); end; 2015-07-27 09:31 keltezéssel, Mark Morgan Lloyd írta: Péter Gábor wrote: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be elegantly put into a case statement?

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

On 07/27/2015 09:31 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Péter Gábor wrote: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; Can this be elegantly put into a case statement? Hi, I just tried

[Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Thanks. Bob B. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; or you can get the name of the class ShowMessage( Sender.classname ); 2015-07-27 07:30 keltezéssel, Péter Gábor írta: If you typecast

Re: [Lazarus] how to get Type of Sender or Components[i] in order to Cast?

Am 27.07.2015 07:48 schrieb Péter Gábor p...@freemail.hu: Sorry! I was misreading your mail... you want to know the type of them. You can compare the type of them: if Sender = TButton then { do something} ; The correct operator is is not =. Regards, Sven --