TCustomApplication.DoRun

[mcculloch]

I am looking at Lazarus again since I was a big fan of Delphi many years ago.  I opened a new Console Application project and compiled it without adding anything.  It works, but of course doesn't do anything.  The class inheriting TCustomApplication declares a procedure DoRun as an override, suggesting that TCustomApplication has or inherits a DoRun procedure.  Is DoRun defined in one of the ancestors?

In general, I'm having difficulty figuring out how DoRun gets called.

Thanks

[cdbc]

Hi
'TCustomApplication' has a method 'Run', that calls the /virtual/ 'DoRun' method, i.e.: It ends up calling your overridden 'DoRun' instead of the one in the ancester-class.
Regards Benny

[mcculloch]

Thanks!  That makes sense.  I looked at the docs for TCustomApplication on freepascal.org and it doesn't list a procedure DoRun at all.  That's why I was confused.  It could be that it's not listed because it doesn't have an implementation for it.

[dsiders]

Thanks!  That makes sense.  I looked at the docs for TCustomApplication on freepascal.org and it doesn't list a procedure DoRun at all.  That's why I was confused.  It could be that it's not listed because it doesn't have an implementation for it.

RTL and FCL docs do not include private or protected members.

[cdbc]

Hi
You can always Ctrl + left-click on a method or a class and codetools will take you to the implementation, in the code editor ofc.
Regards Benny