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

[Marc Weustink]

Martin Friebe wrote:
> Marc Weustink wrote:
>> 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).
>>
> Unfortunately, thanks to RTTI this isn't enough.

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but... The IDE cannot know of any of those cases either, so it cannot 
generate the list.

Marc