On 20/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's hard to say whether this is an actual error or an incompatibility.
Well this 'error' has been around in tiOPF since I ported it to FPC (about 3 years) and now it's really bugging me. :) > Looking at the code and the error, I'd say that somewhere along the line > fpc converted a variant to int64 instead of to an integer as delphi seems > to do. No idea, I may not look at the Delphi code remember! ;-) > It's just one of these reasons why it is IMHO better not to use Variants: > things happen behind the scenes that are not very clear (and that are > not documented ) Fair enough. I'm not a fan of Variants either, but how else would I write the PropertyMatch() function then? Yes I could do some extra tests and use GetStrProp, GetIntProp, GetFloatProp etc. but there isn't a GetBooleanProp(). I would imagine I need to use the GetOrdProp for Boolean, but looking at the function definition for GetOrdProp, it outputs a Int64 which is probably what gave me the error in the first place (casting Bool to Int64 or vice-versa). Note that the PropertyMatch() function I have in the example is a scaled down version (just to highlight the issue) of the full one in tiOPF. I need to handle all property types. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
