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Report #: 47274

Status: Closed

Overload methods does not appear in Code Complete list

Project: Delphi

Build #: 11.0.2709.7128

Version: 11.2

Submitted By: Shen Chye Tan

Report Type: Basic functionality failure

Date Reported: 6/9/2007 4:21:45 AM

Severity: Commonly encountered problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 256073

Resolution: As Designed (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : 14.0.3494.23546

Duplicate of: None

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Total Votes: 11

Description

For cases where there are overloaded methods, the Code Complete list does not seem to list these. However, it does list one of the methods where the return type is boolean, integer, etc, but apparently not string types.

This problem was not there in BDS2005, where it lists all the overloaded methods.

I have attached a simple test set of codes in the "Steps to Reproduce".

Thank you.

Steps to Reproduce:

<SAMPLE CODE BEGIN>

unit code_complete_Unit3;

interface

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs, StdCtrls;

type
  testclass = class (TObject)
  public
    function returnstring (s: string): string; overload;
    function returnstring (s: widestring): widestring; overload;
    function returnbool (s: integer): bool; overload;
    function returnbool (s: extended): bool; overload;
    function returnnumber (s: string): integer; overload;
    function returnnumber (s: widestring): extended; overload;
    function returnsimple (s: widestring): boolean;
  end;

  TForm3 = class(TForm)
    Button1: TButton;
    procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  Form3: TForm3;

implementation
{$R *.dfm}
function testclass.returnsimple (s: widestring): boolean;
begin result := true; end;
function testclass.returnstring (s: string): string;
begin result := ''; end;
function testclass.returnstring (s: widestring): widestring;
begin result := ''; end;
function testclass.returnbool (s: integer): bool;
begin result := true; end;
function testclass.returnbool (s: extended): bool;
begin result := true; end;
function testclass.returnnumber (s: string): integer;
begin result := 1; end;
function testclass.returnnumber (s: widestring): extended;
begin result := 1; end;

procedure TForm3.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  t: testclass;
begin

  t
:= testclass.Create;
  // if you type "t." below, the Code Complete list shows
  // only returnbool and returnsimple method appears
  // returnnumber and returnstring is missing

  t.Free;

end;

end.

<SAMPLE CODE END>

Workarounds

None.

Attachment

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Comments

Sebastian Zierer at 10/26/2007 1:26:35 AM -

I think this is not just a documentation problem. I'd see that more as a basic functionality failure, because it could be the reason that a programmer completely doesn't know that a particular function exists in a class.

Same problem for:

procedure Test(X, Y: Integer; const Text: WideString); overload;
procedure Test(X, Y: Integer; const Text: String); overload;

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