[Lazarus] Is it meaningful or possible to change the visibility or the properties and events in a form or datamodule, ie make the private or protected?

[Frank Church]

On 23 March 2012 14:02, Michael Fuchs <freepascal at ypa-software.de> wrote:
> Am 23.03.2012 14:55, schrieb Frank Church:
>>
>> [...]  I'd prefer to look only at the public section and say, Oh,
>>
>> this is what it does for the program's other modules. Whatever isn't
>> there is not relevant to the rest of the application.
>>
>> I understand that it comes from a Delphi legacy as RAD tool dating
>> from a time when the principles underlying object orientation had not
>> properly sunk in. [...]
>
>
> You can already do this by changing the way you are programming. Just write
> a class which only publish the needed methods and properties to the outside.
> Don't let the Application create and control your forms, move this to your
> class. So, your class hides the forms, datampdules and other stuff.
>

This is what I have been considering.

> hth
> Michael
>
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