What is the preferred order of units in the uses clause? 1. uses Interfaces, Forms, MyForm; 2. uses Forms, Interfaces, MyForm;

There is no double identifier and interfaces uses forms, so the initialization order is fixed. You can write the three units above in any permutation.

Are you going to update the examples or should I send you patch for it?

I added them already.
I just started a few of them and saw a lot of errors. :( I must admit, that I never pay much attention to the examples, but this was too worse. These are not examples for the LCL, these are bug reports. I will fix them in the next days ..

Mattias

I see you added the interface clause to all the units. I thought it only needed to be added the the main unit (the program) and not to the form units (i.e. helloform.pp).

What is the preferred order of units in the uses clause?

1. uses Interfaces, Forms, MyForm;
2. uses Forms, Interfaces, MyForm;

Are you going to update the examples or should I send you patch for it?

Regards,
Vincent Snijders.

I see you added the interface clause to all the units.

Not all units. Just three too much. Deleted.

I thought it only needed to be added the the main unit (the program) and not to the form units(i.e. helloform.pp).

Right.
(It's completely irrelevant what unit/program source file contains the 'interfaces' in the uses section, just add it at least once somewhere in the project).

Mattias

Hi all,

The LCL has finally become completely independent of the interfaces. When you update your cvs plz make sure that you use the -dP options, and rebuild clean. Some important files were removed.
Because of the independency an old trick does not work any longer. You MUST now add 'interfaces' to the programs uses statement. The IDE will do this automatically for new applications. For your existing projects, you must do this yourself. Otherwise if you compile an old application with the new LCL you will get the following error on startup:

ERROR: No interface object. Plz check if "interfaces" was added to the programs uses section.

To reflect this backwards incompatibility and because it was time anyway, the lazarus version was increased to 0.8.5 alpha.

A detailed list of changes to 0.8.4a will follow in the next days.

Mattias