[Israel.pm] Fwd: Delegates in Object Pascal

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

Here is ik's example of delegating methods using Object Pascal. I dare say 
it's hard for me to follow it because it's too verbose. From what I 
understand, he demonstrated one delegated method, but the question is whether 
it can be done with several delegated methods of different type signatures, 
while just listing their names (as is possible in Perl 5).

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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Date: Monday 29 January 2007 19:59
From: ik <idokan at gmail.com>
To: "Shlomi Fish" <shlomif at iglu.org.il>

Anyway, for delegating stuff using Object Pascal you can do the following:

program EventExample;

uses
 SysUtils, Classes;

type
 { define the event type }
 TOnCalc = procedure (APercent: Integer) of object;

 { class that triggers the event }
 TCalculator = class
 private
   FOnCalc: TOnCalc;
 public
   procedure Calculate(A, B: Integer);
   property OnCalc: TOnCalc read FOnCalc write FOnCalc;
 end;

 { class that uses the event }
 TPresenter = class
 public
   procedure PresenterOnCalc(APercent: Integer);  // <--- this is the
delegated method
   procedure ShowCalc;
 end;

implementation

{ TCalculator }
procedure TCalculator.Calculate(A, B: Integer);
begin
 Writeln(A + B);
 { Execute the event if assigned from outside this class }
 if Assigned(OnCalc) then
   OnCalc(10); // 10 is the percent calculated at this moment
end;

{ TPresenter }
procedure TPresenter.ShowCalc;
var
 lCalculator: TCalculator;
begin
 lCalculator := TCalculator.Create;
 lCalculator.OnCalc := PresenterOnCalc; // <-- assign the delegate
 lCalculator.Free;
end;

procedure TPresenter.PresenterOnCalc(APercent: Integer);
begin
 Writeln('Calculated at this moment: ' + APercent + '%');
end;

end.


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