Hi,

Continuing with the RTTI return types for various property types. In FPC 2.2.5, WideString properties were returned as tkWString types. Now with FPC 2.3.1, those are returned as tkUString.

Does that mean tkWString is now deprecated? In that case, why is it not removed from the enum list?

If tkWString is not deprecated, when will WideString properties be returned as tkWString? What conditions must be met?

Regards,
- Graeme -

Using the WideString type on Windows. On Non-Windows WideString = UnicodeString.

I forgot to mention....

Please note that tiOPF and our company code does not use WideString in general. So cwstring unit is never in any uses clause.

The tiOPF unit tests have some helper RTTI functions that extract various bits of information. Those unit tests test for all supported types in Object Pascal, which in this case includes WideString types. And that is where I am detecting these errors. RTTI tests are now down to 2 failures only. :-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

Florian Klaempfl het geskryf:

Using the WideString type on Windows. On Non-Windows WideString = UnicodeString.

Thanks. That complicates the unit tests a bit... or at least will be obfuscated by IFDEF's a lot (something I hate in code).

Regards,
- Graeme -