What is 'Sender:TObject'?

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Question:

I would like to know what information is contained in 'Sender' and how I get at it.

Answer:

Normally, Sender is the object that called the routine. So if you have an event handler, that is connected to a TButton, it is the button. But if it is connected to more than one button, then it is the button that caused the event.

- If you know it is a button,you can use 'as':

ShowMessage((Sender as TButton).Caption);

- You can check the type of Sender with 'is':

if Sender is TButton then
ShowMessage(TButton(Sender).Caption);

- You can of course also check for a particular component:

if Sender = TButton1 then
...
else if Sender = TListBox1 then
...

Comments:

2006-02-24, 13:56:26

anonymous from Sweden

2006-09-07, 02:24:05

anonymous from Brazil

2008-06-05, 14:17:50

anonymous from Germany

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