[fpc-devel] GetPropList and order of properties returned

[Peter Vreman]

>
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the rules regarding the order of a unsorted list of published
>> properties using the GetPropList method, when inheritance has been used.
>> I had unit tests from a Delphi app that detected this difference.
>>
>> Below is the results from Delphi and FPC.  The first set has been
>> compiled
>> with Delphi 7 and the second set of results from a exectable compiled
>> with
>> FPC 2.0.1
>>
>> As you can see, Delphi lists the properties from the root object out,
>> and FPC
>> lists them from the outer object in.  Which one is doing it correctly,
>> or is
>> there no set rule?
>
> There is no set rule. If I remember correctly, the order changed in
> Delphi, because I seem to remember that it was as FPC (D5 or so).

Fixed. The order is defined by the NameIndex