[Gambas-user] Events not firing in dynamically instantiated forms.

[Tobias Boege]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 11/27/2014 08:39 AM, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> > Le 27/11/2014 14:29, Stephen a ?crit :
> >> I'm not consciously overriding the event observer so I'm not clear how
> >> to not do it.
> >> Obviously I still have much to learn.
> >>
> >
> > mhForm1 = New Form1(TabStrip1) As "Form1"
> >                                  \________/
> 
> Now *I'm* confused. The documentation for "New" 
> (http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/new) gives its syntax as:
> Object = NEW Class [ ( Constructor parameters... ) ] [ AS Name ]
> 
> 
> And, there is a warning box that says, "If you forget to specify the 
> Name part, your object will never raise events!"
> 
> But after stripping "As Form1" off the end of that line, the form 
> obviously *does* raise events.
> 
> Is the documentation in need of correction? If so, what should that 
> warning actually say?
> 

What the documentation says is generally true. But Form is a special class:
it attaches to itself as event observer by default when instantiated.

Regards,
Tobi

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