Well this definitely beyond my ken now but thanks to you both once more for your help.
I've stuck with Walters original suggestion which is working just fine and is much easier on the eye than my original solution. I will return to the apparent Delphi IDE problem and my possible memory leak after I've met my next deadline! My work on the TList sort at this time was just proof of principal for the next stage of development. Cheers Dave Rob Kennedy wrote: >Walter Prins wrote: > > >>Anyway, I did a quick hack update to my previous suggestion source - here >>then is a TListDecorator class that is can be attached to any TList >>descendant (including TObjectList) as shown to add "object method sort" >>ability... Note though: I cheat - I do *not* reimplement/surface a complete >>TList compatible interface in the wrapper, instead I just surface the >>wrapped list as a property. >> >> > >If you _had_ tried to surface all of TList's methods, you'd be right >back to where you started, in a way. You'd be stuck with a TList >wrapping a TObjectList, so all the exposed methods would be for a >generic TList instead of the specific TObjectList. If you wanted to deal >with TObjects again, you'd need another wrapper class. It's not as bad >as before, though, since TObjectListDecorator could descend from >TListDecorator, so you could have two parallel sets of classes. > > > >>In the form code I also maintain references to >>both the wrapped list and the wrapper. Thus, this example is perhaps a bit >>ugly and isn't really in the "spirit" of how it should be for a proper >>wrapper, but even so, (returning to the actual problem) this solution to >>circumventing the sort function vs. method issue is still IMHO far less >>awkward than the original jiggery pokery that Dave wanted to improve I >>think. >> >> > >In this case, I don't think a wrapper is even necessary (which might >explain why the wrapper doesn't quite "feel right"). You could just as >easily have a standalone procedure that takes a TList reference and a >method pointer. That's essentially what the QuickSort procedure in >Classes.pas does anyway. > > > ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
