Normal or Bug?

[jana2000]

I wanted to create a splash screen for a new project and copied the source code for a splash screen from another project. The code was OK but was apparently ignored by Lazarus.

After some trial and error I found the cause: you have to mark every event in the object inspector. Just declaring it in the unit source code is not enough.

Is this normal or a bug. (Lazarus 3.6)

[marcov]

Normal.

[n7800]

An event is just a class property. If you don't assign it, the class won't call it. And the Object Inspector is, roughly speaking, a simple way to assign a properties to classes (components in form). You can do it yourself in code (in run-time):

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1. Button1.OnClick := @Button1Click;

For clarity, the method name doesn't matter. It can be called anything, and it doesn't mention either the component name or the event name - it's just a name created by the IDE by default.

This also means that you can assign the same method to different events (if the number and type of arguments match).