Add Property

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You can use the Add Property dialog box to add a property to a class in the Delphi Class Explorer.

Possible options are:

Item Description

Property name

Specifies the name of the property .

Add to class

Specifies the class to which you are adding the property.By default the currently selected class is prompted. You can, however, change this to any other available class selecting it from classes displayed in the drop-down list in the combo box.

Type

Specifies the type of the property. You can select one of the predefined types from the combo box or you can type in any other existing type.

Visibility

Specifies the visibility of the property being created. You can select one of the options specified in the Visibility group.

Reader

Specifies the name of the read specifier for the property being created.

Writer

Specifies the name of the write specifier for the property being created.

Create

When any of these check boxes is checked ON, then you can explicitly specify some name for the corresponding read/write access specifier and specified methods will be created.

Create field

When this check box is checked ON, then you can explicitly specify some field corresponding to this property and the specified field will be declared. Then this field is used within bodies of the property's getter and setter methods.

Reset

Resets the default options.


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