But debugging it is not really possible atm, because the stabs (debug info) is not written correctly for descendants of tpersistent. It looks like it get in a loop when writting the info in gdb. I'll have to wait for Pierre MUller to get back from holiday, he's the person who coded the stabs

Peter

Now this isn't correct. If you look in the dlgform.pp file of the comdialogs example you will see the buttonClick which is the procedure called by the DoOnClick TNotifyEvent. It looks like this:

procedure TSampleDialogs.buttonClick(Sender : TObject);
begin
.
.
.
end;

In the above case shouldn't the variable Self as found in this method represent a pointer to the SampleDialogs object that was created from the TSampleDialogs class? Then the data in the Sender field should be the pointer to the actual TObject (aka control) that called this event.

However the Self that is found is actually the button that fired the event. If you just print the caption and tag "writeln(caption,' ',tag); you will see that it prints the name of the button and the tag value when you click on the button. But it shouldn't. It used to.

What happened?????

That might be why my compileroptions dialog button started crashing. In the OnClicked event, I just had Hide, which really means Self.Hide. So if Self refers to the button instead of the form, then it would be telling the button to hide. I don't quite know why this caused Lazarus to crash, but it definitely isn't right. Like you said, Self should refer to the class component and Sender should refer to the object that called that method. I don't know what happened to change this though. It was working yesterday.

Curtis

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