[Lazarus] Creating methods using rtti-info

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 12:33:52 +0100
Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing my own method propertyeditor. And I want it to create the source for a new method. Only problem is that it should use the RTTI-information to obtain the method's parameters.
> 
> Now if I look at TMainIDE.OnPropHookCreateMethod, it does exactly what I want except that CodeToolBoss.CreatePublishedMethod is called with the UseTypeInfoForParameters parameter set to false. In my case it has to be true. ;)

Why?
The RTTI might use mediator objects or things from the wrong
platform. The codetools use the project sources and that's what
the compiler is seeing too.

 
> Now I could try to write my own method which does the same thing, but then I'll need several things which are defined in the ide-package, which I can not use. Especially the FormEditor1.CreateNewJITMethod is necessary, or else it is not possible to return a create JITMethod for the new event.

Wow. That's the worst hack of the IDE. I was glad to get rid of it and
now someone asks for its return.
Are you sure you need them?


> Any ideas how to proceed?


Mattias