[fpc-devel] Delphi smart-linking perspective ( Language change and implementation ... )

[Marc Weustink]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
>>>>> Also note that WPO can do little about published methods (since it must 
>>>>> assume that these can all be called via RTTI).
>>>> Maybe the IDE can feedback some info about used classes and methods?
>>> In time, a pascal analyser would be a good thing to have. I think analysis
>>> of smartlinking is more something for an analyzer than the compiler itself
>>> (though the compiler could generate certain datafiles obviously).
>> This won't help lazarus. For lazarus, also the contents of the lfms is
>> important.
> 
> Yeah, I got it when I saw Jonas' reply. The IDE could list all visual
> components in forms in a file and hand it to the compiler. And a "custom"
> list could allow additional streaming types (for users code)

All components are already sortof reported :)
In order to get streamed, each component must have a member variable in 
the owning form.
However what is needed is a list of properties touched in the lfm 
(setting control.caption or control.font.color for instance).

Marc