[Lazarus] WriteLn back to the GUI

[Sven Barth]

Am 23.10.2013 17:06, schrieb Sven Barth:
> Am 23.10.2013 08:59, schrieb ListMember:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to find where WriteLn is declared; but, apparently, 
>> WriteLn is among the select few that Lazarus will ignore 'Find 
>> Declaration' requests --at least that's how it behaves (latest 
>> Lazarus stable) on my side.
>>
>> My ultimate goal, after finding where it is declared, is to locally 
>> modify that part of the sources so that (instead of writing to the 
>> console) it will use a global callback to display whatever WriteLn'ed 
>> in a TMemo.
> Write(Ln), Read(Ln), WriteStr and ReadStr are compiler magic functions 
> which are not available in Pascal source.
>> Or, is there already an alternative to redirect console output to the 
>> running GUI?
> The Pascal IO mechanism relies on variables of type "file" or of type 
> "text". For the latter you can specify your own "textdriver" with 
> which you can replace the e.g. "Output" variable (which is used by 
> "Write(Ln)" without a file argument) which can then redirect the 
> output to something else. For an example of how to implement a text 
> driver you can take a look at the "StreamIO" ( 
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/streamio/index.html ) unit 
> provided with Free Pascal (in 
> $fpcdir/packages/fcl-base/src/streamio.pp). There a text driver is 
> implemented which allows to "assign" streams to TextFile variables and 
> thus to use Write(Ln)/Read(Ln) on them. You'll need to implement 
> something similar for e.g. a memo (or whatever method you want to use 
> to display the output).

And I just found an example which already does this for TCustomEdit 
descendants: http://kd5col.info/swag/DELPHI/0017.PAS.html
I've not tested it in FPC, so maybe small adjustments might be necessary...

Regards,
Sven