#12 RTTI

[Anonymous]

Runtime type information (RTTI) alows "investigate" a
object "published" properties and events, so, an "object
inspector" can be build.
Also, "Classname" and "inheritsFrom" are a nice thing.

[A.H. Banen]

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I can't help on how to investigate an object's published
properties and functions :( , but I made a try at a
Classname and an Inheritsfrom that work on class
instances:

class examplegrandparent
endclass

class exampleparent(examplegrandparent)
endclass

class exampleclass( exampleparent )
endclass

x = exampleclass()

classname = func( ci )
return type(ci)
endfunc

inheritsfrom = func( ci )
return split( (unparse( ci.inherited ))[2->-2], "=")
[2]
endfunc

print classname( x ), cr # works on
class instance
print inheritsfrom(x), cr # works on
class instance

print inheritsfrom(inheritsfrom(x)),cr # doesn't work
on a class

dummy = eval( inheritsfrom(x))() # So
sometimes a trick works...
print inheritsfrom(dummy ), cr

Andr

[Rodrigo Ruiz]

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Every time you create a new "CORE_OBJECT" in
a "CORE_MODULE" you must register it classname and all
methods and properties. It seems to be stored in a table,
well, we can search in this table to retrieve all registered
props/methods.
This could be very handy when creating visual environments
for dialect (i have seen a "visual dialect" request :) )

[Rodrigo Ruiz]

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Every time you create a new "CORE_OBJECT" in
a "CORE_MODULE" you must register it classname and all
methods and properties. It seems to be stored in a table,
well, we can search in this table to retrieve all registered
props/methods.
This could be very handy when creating visual environments
for dialect (i have seen a "visual dialect" request :) )

[A.H. Banen]

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Rodrigo,
You already can search the table you talk about. Run e.g.
the following:
import "gui"
print gui

There is however a practical limit: the frame you can search
contains only names of classes, functions, properties and
constants. The additional information , what's in a class,
parameters needed, ranges allowed, etc. is not available.
These would need to be added to be able to 'browse
objects'...