[Gambas-user] Problem with Lock method for DrawingArea class

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 23/06/2020 à 07:54, John Rose a écrit :
>  > You can lock an object by using the static method "Object.Lock".
>  > There is no "Lock" method in the DrawingArea class."
> 
> I don't understand the above. Quoting from 
> https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/object-model#t10:
> 
> 
>        >2.3. Locking Objects
>        > An object can be locked so that it stops raising events, and can be
>        > unlocked so that it raises > them again. See
>        > the Object.Lock
>       <https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/object/lock> and
>       Object.Unlock
>       <https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/comp/gb/object/unlock> methods.
>        > 2.4. Observers
>        > Observers <https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/observer> are
>       objects that allow you to intercept events raised by
>        > other objects. They > "observe" them.
> 
> Since the above (later on in that web page) refers to a Button as an 
> Object , I think that a Drawing Area is an object and therefore Lock & 
> Unlock should be methods available to it.
> Also, the compiler does not object to e.g. DesktopDrawingArea (a 
> Drawing  Area) being used with Lock as in DesktopDrawingArea.Lock.
> 
> I do try to follow Netiquette (in 
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette), so please tell me 
> _specifically _where I go wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 

It means that you have to do:

	Object.Lock(MyDrawingArea)

instead of:

	MyDrawingArea.Lock()

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini