I forgot to state that if I add the name of the function after inherited it works, but why?
-Andreas -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andreas Toth Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 15:10 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Overriding and Inheriting Function Methods When I try to compile the following the compiler returns the error "incompatible types": Result := inherited; // or simply: inherited; For your information, I wanted to follow the above with: Result.Filter := GetFilter; Result.Filtered := Result.Filter <> ''; Oh, and if you haven't already guessed it, the method that I'm overriding is a function returning a TDataSet. To get around this I thought that I could simply call inherited on its own, but even that generates the same error. OK, so I'm not completely lost as why I get this error since I would say that inherited **always** behaves like a procedure-like call and as such doesn't (sadly) return a type. Any suggestions to why this is and/or solutions around it? By the way, rewriting the function as a procedure with a var parameter is (I reckon) ugly as since it doesn't clearly define who is responsible for creating the object. -Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
