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Re: IDL 8.0 now available [message #72248 is a reply to message #71859]

Thu, 19 August 2010 12:59

Matt Haffner
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Registered: October 2000

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A few more 8.0 tips:

* The new help system is missing a lot of old documentation. For
example, unless I'm really overlooking something, the details of
object implementation and syntax for coding custom objects is not
there. The "Objects" topic mostly describes just the built-in classes.
However, PDFs are available in idl/help/pdf/. They look to be fairly
unchanged from the 7.x versions despite the "June 2010" on the cover.
They don't seem to have any of the new 8.0 language features, in
particular.

* This may have been more obvious to those of you that had been using
objects and tracking 8.0 improvements, but I'm just starting to use
them with 8.0. In the "Modifying Object Properties" help topic, it
states:

"If your object inherits from the IDL_Object class, you can set or
change the object's properties after object initialization by calling
the property directly using the dot operator..."

I naively thought this meant that default get/set methods were built
into the IDL_Object superclass, but they're not. As the "What's New"
topic states, you have to provide SetProperty and GetProperty methods.
IDL_Object is just providing the operator overloading.

- mh

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