Name of calling procedure?

[Joanna from IRC]

I just did an experiment and made
Ttablewhere = class(tcomponet)
As you say owner shows up but there is an access violation  crash when I try to use it like Showmessage (owner.name);

Another question is it for a class instance to create itself since nil pointers can access methods?

Like self:= tclass.create ?

[rvk]

I just did an experiment and made
Ttablewhere = class(tcomponet)
As you say owner shows up but there is an access violation  crash when I try to use it like Showmessage (owner.name);

Show some more code.
You should use TWhatever.Create(owner).

Otherwise there is no owner and you can't do owner.name
If you want to do TWhatever.Create(nil) you need to check for a nil owner.
If owner <> nil then foo := owner.name.

But why do you need the owner.name?

It's better to show more code with what you want to do.
I have a feeling you are completing things a lot.

[Joanna from IRC]

Thanks everyone for the answers I decided to just redo my code.

I’m still curious about the question if class_a.procedure a calls class_b. Procedure b can I get the name of class_a from inside of class_b.procedure b?

[jamie]

There was a reason "Sender:Tobject" was part of method calling.

[Joanna from IRC]

So unless there is a sender parameter no chance of knowing what sent it?

[rvk]

So unless there is a sender parameter no chance of knowing what sent it?

Why do you think the whole fpc and Lazarus source is riddled with foo(Sender: TObject) procedures?

So no, not unless you go checking the call stack (which can be unreliable).

(Why don't you do things more like fpc/Lazarus does, So using TComponent with Owner and Sender in calls. Inventing your own 'convention' only complicates things and makes it harder for anyone else to understand.)

[Joanna from IRC]

Yea I guess I was hoping to access the call stack somehow but maybe not good idea .

[Khrys]

Yea I guess I was hoping to access the call stack somehow but maybe not good idea .

The presence of inlined functions makes this not just not a good idea, but outright impossible, unfortunately