Compile Error

[wjackson153]

Not sure what has changed, but now compiler wants form1 included in my syntax

for example

Form1.label1.caption := 'Hello World';

I use to could just say

label1.caption := 'Hello World';

and it compiled just fine,   any idea why now it wont compile without form1. added to the syntax ?

[taazz]

because the procedure you are using it in is not part of the TForm1 class probably.

[wjackson153]

Code: [Select]

{ TForm1 }

  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    Button1: TButton;
    Button2: TButton;
    Edit1: TEdit;
    Label1: TLabel;



Label1  is purely in the the TForm Class

I beleive this to be a bug ???   perhaps random

I closed my project,  reopeded it  and now its working just fine, without the need to add form1

[taazz]

not label1 the procedure you are accessing label1 is it part of the TForm1 class?

[Leledumbo]

Learn about identifier scope. You can access instance variables from instance methods directly, without the need to tell which object has the variable (same as prepending it with Self.) From another class' instance methods or pure procedure/function, you need to tell which object because they have no idea who has the variable.