[DUG] Zero-valued Real Properties not being stored to .DFM file??? (D7 Enterprise)

[Moretti, Giovanni]

I'm using Delphi 7 Enterprise and I've finally tracked down why some
properties that can be changed in the object inspector don't have any
effect.

 

I've written a component that contains a real Published Property X of
type REAL:

 

 - X is initialised in the Constructor to +1

 

 - I change X to ZERO using the object inspector

 

 - I run the program and find that X still has its initialised value
(+1)

 

AAARGH - it's taken quite a while to find out why and it's (as usual) a
single line buried in the help:

 

"STORAGE SPECIFIERS"

  "For Reals, pointer and strings there is an implicit default value of
ZERO"

 

And it seems the values aren't streamed from the object inspector into
the .DFM file unless they differ from the ASSUMED default (which is to
be ZERO but in my case is actually +1 !!!

 

To me this seems like a definite bug - you change a value in the Object
Inspector at Design-time but it doesn't make it to the .DFM file and has
no effect on the executable.

 

Setting STORED on the Property line doesn't help and for Reals you can't
specify a DEFAULT value).

 

Has this been fixed in later versions of Delphi? 

 

Any suggested work-arounds (such as storing 1E-8 instead of zero). This
component has several sets of X/Y/Z coords and I really don't want have
to maintain another a dozen tiny procedures each of which changes zero
to 1E-8 ...

 

Thanks

Giovanni

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