[fpc-pascal] FPObserver Examples anywhere?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2012-11-15 01:15, bsquared wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know of any example code for the FPObserver interface? 
> Preferable with Collections.

Sure, see attached. It's very basic, but shows the functionality.

NOTE:
  I used latest 2.7.1 compiler, where some base classes in the RTL
  support the IFPObserved interface.


And the demo output is as follows:

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$ ./fpobserver_demo
TStringList has changed [ooChange]
TStringList has changed [ooChange]
TStringList has changed [ooChange]
[ooFree] detected so we should detach ourselves
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This does raise some points of interest though.

 1) I would probably surface the IFPObserver methods to Public. Though
    there is good arguments to not do it either - thus you are forced
    to use correct interface usage... via Supports(), getting a
    interface pointer back, and using that interface pointer to make
    method calls.

 2) Even though I did two Add() calls and one Delete() call, TStringList
    reported the operation as simply ooChanged. Correct, but not very
    precise. After all, we also have ooAdd, ooDelete operation states
    we could work with.

 3) My personal preference is that the Observed automatically detaches
    Observers in the destructor. But this is just a personal preference
    in my own code.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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