[Lazarus] Published interface TWSxxxxxx

[Marc Weustink]

José Mejuto wrote:
> Hello Lazarus-List,
> 
> Friday, April 16, 2010, 3:02:37 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> Is there any reason to be published instead public ? Maybe to garantee
>>> that the functions will never be removed by fpc/linker if not directly
>>> used in the code ?
> MW> there is a "virtual" classtree build based on RTTI. RTTI is only
> MW> generated for published methods
> 
> So this limits the possibility of the LCL to left out parts not being
> used in the program, as every class and method is references in some
> way by a published method.

Yes, you correct. Thats one of the reasons of the big hello world. We 
will move this to interfaces someday after 1.0 or so.

> And now the question :) should I in LCLfpgui move the public methods
> to published section (when ancestor is published of course) ? It is
> just to get a more hint clear compilation.

IMO yes.

Marc