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echo: delphi
to: JUD MCCRANIE
from: FRANK MALCOLM
date: 1997-08-30 23:10:00
subject: Re: OBJECT INSP- SOURCE

Hi, Jud.
JM>  GW> Oh, I see.  You're typing the name of an *existing* routine into the
JM>  GW> OI.  Have you tried typing the name of a non-existant routine?
JM> That creates the shell of the subroutine in the source file, but
JM> again there is no explict call to it in the source code.
Well, there is - just not necessarily in the source code you can see.
That call is in the source code of the parent object. Presumably you
used virtual methods in TP6 or T/BP7? You created a virtual method,
never wrote a call to it but Hey! It got called! Same principle.
Regards, fIM.
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