[SOLVED] Moving Procedures from one Unit to Another

[guest48180]

I've taken some lengthy procedures and placed them in their own units. But I can't figure out how to call them from the main unit, how to let the compiler know they're part of the program.
Any help on this is appreciated.

Landslyde

[JuhaManninen]

I've taken some lengthy procedures and placed them in their own units. But I can't figure out how to call them from the main unit, how to let the compiler know they're part of the program.

Put the new unit name in "uses" section of your main unit.

[Martin_fr]

http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/RTL.asp?Name=Uses

Also tutorials there, and more.

[engkin]

Assume the new unit is NewUnit1, make the procedure available to other units by putting its declaration before the implementation section:

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unit NewUnit1;

interface
..
//Here you can make a procedure visible to other units when they use this unit
procedure NewProcedure1(...);
..
implementation

//This procedure is visible outside this unit
procedure NewProcedure1(...);
begin
...
end;

//This procedure is NOT visible outside this unit
procedure NewProcedure2(...);
begin
...
end;



Add the newly created unit to the uses section of the main unit:

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uses
..., NewUnit1;

call the procedure in your code:

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...
  NewProcedure1(...);
...

Notice that NewProcedure2 is not visible. Any thing you put after implementation is not visible outside that unit