Re: An abstract question! Component writers knowledge about protected methods?


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Rudy Velthuis wrote:
Like I said, they used to be in the help files, but in the transition
from Winhelp (D7 and below) to HtmlHelp2 (D8 and later), a lot of that
information got lost or was in an unusable format. This is slowly being
reversed, but currently, the only information about the formal
parameters and the functionality of a protected method can be found in
the source code.

I'm sure this is going to change again.

I sure hope it does. The Delphi developers have done so much good work, it's a shame the help system post-D7 doesn't reflect it.

Erick
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