On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:02 PM, lainz via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > My question is *if the method still will be called instead of the LCL one in > 1.9 without using override*. I know this is a basic of OOP but I need a bit > of help because I never use virtual and overload.
Virtual methods are polymorphic so a caller does not need to know the actual type of an object. The correct virtual / overridden method is always called. I guess your code knows the exact type (BGRAImageList) and can use it. Thus the correct method is called even if it is not virtual. Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
