[fpc-pascal] Parameters to Format()

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 25 May 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> How should I put this?
>
>
> procedure TUnyokedFrontendForm.OutputWriteF(const str: widestring; values: 
> array of variant; fg: TColor= clBlack; bg: TColor= clDefault);
>
> var     scratch: widestring;
>
> begin
>  scratch := Format(str, values);
>
>
> As above, I get
>
> unyokedfrontendcode.pas(354,32) Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 2: Got 
> "Open Array Of Variant", expected "Array Of Const"
>
> I was caught by this one years ago, and at the time the Delphi developers I 
> was in contact with had no easy solution.

That's because there is no easy solution.

Format uses a different array type, they are not variants. 
You'll have to convert the arrays.

Michael