[Gambas-user] Some questions about Component/Classes/Symbols (Text format)

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 25/06/2021 à 10:37, CD a écrit :
> Some questions about Component/Classes/Symbols

...that you posted twice on the mailing-list.

> 
> 1) What do the symbols "." for example in
> gb.jit component/Jit class/property "."
> gb.map component/class _MapTile/property "."
> gb.form.mdi component/Workspace class/constant "."
> these symbols do not appear in * .info files
> from the /usr/share/gambas3/info directory?

You should not see them anymore now the bug is fixed. They don't exist.

> 
> 2) Why in the *; list files in the same directory/usr/share/gambas3/info
> some class names are followed by an exclamation mark "!", others don't?

Why do you want to know that? This is an implementation detail not meant 
to be used publicly.

> 
> 3) Why some classes appear with their name preceded by a "^",
> for example gb.image component, classes ^Image and ^color;
> in gb.image.info file no "^" sign?

They are the overriden classes. You can't use them anymore explicitely. 
This is an internal interpreter thing.

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Benoît Minisini