[fpc-devel] TCustomApplication's parent class?

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 10:07:17 CEST 2008


2008/4/27 Sergei Gorelkin <sergei_gorelkin at mail.ru>:
>  In fact, TSomeForm.Create(Application) should work and should be enough for
> all cases. In my vision, the purpose of Application.CreateForm is a
> workaround for odd VCL architecture: it assigns object reference before
> calling its constructor, so that you can use global variables like "Form1"
> within FormCreate handler without getting a segfault. But doing so is bad,
> extremely bad practice...

Ah, so that explains the weird code in Lazarus's
Application.CreateForm().  Calling .NewInstance() and then later
calling .Create(). :-)  Thanks for the explanation.


Regards,
 - Graeme -


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