[Gambas-user] equivalent python self

[Jean-Yves F. Barbier]

Doriano Blengino a écrit :
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>> i.e.:
>> TreeView1_MouseDown()
>>   TextBox2756.Text = "xxxxxxx"
>>   LAST.Enable = TRUE   => does it apply to TreeView1 or TextBox2756 ?
>> END
>>   
> applies to TreeView1 -------------^
> 
> I see your ideas are not clear. In the above subroutine LAST refers to 
> the object which raised the event - presumably TreeView1 when you 
> pressed a mouse button on it. But you can make several objects call the 
> same event handler:
> 
>     ANewButton = new Button(me) as "TreeView1"   ' just to explain...
> 
> After that declaration, if you click that button, TreeView1_MouseDown 
> will be called, and the same will happen if you click on TreeView1 (two 
> different objects call the same event handler). But in the first case 
> LAST will refer to ANewButton, in the second it will refer to TreeView1. 
> That's all - no other meanings can be attached to LAST, and its life 
> ceases when the subroutine (i.e., event handler) ceases. LAST is a 
> global variable, so gambas will let you access it even when such a thing 
> would be wrong; it makes sense only when referring to "the object which 
> raised this singular event I am managing now".

Thanks Doriano it is now clear; so I'll stick to real name to avoid any side
effect.

JY
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