[Lazarus] IDE problems when using record helper types

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:09:30 +0200
Bernd <prof7bit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/6/28 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> 
> > At the moment the codetools simply skips the "helper of" keywords.
> >
> > Nothing was implemented.
> 
> Should I create a feature request or is it already in the pipeline? I
> assume that since the codetools can already deal with modeswitch
> autoderef it is now only a matter of making it add the helper methods
> to the record and the record fields to the helper and all the problems
> should magically go away?

"autoderef" is the ability to omit the ^ operator and simply use the
point.

 
> Because the more I use this syntax the more I like it. I have already
> translated all my needed libpurple structs and functions into Objects
> with methods but I also want to wrap some of the already existing
> glib2 types from the glib2 unit that are also needed and the only way
> to make it all neatly fit together and look and feel like Object
> Pascal and not like C seem to be the record helpers.

Eventually it will be implemented, but I have currently no plans to do
it.

Mattias