TGlassFrame.Assign Method

Copies the contents of another, similar object.

Pascal

procedure Assign(Source: TPersistent); override;

C++

virtual __fastcall Assign(TPersistent * Source);

Description

Call Assign to copy the properties or other attributes of one object from another. The standard form of a call to Assign is

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Destination.Assign(Source); {Delphi}

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Destination->Assign(Source); // C++

which tells the Destination object to copy the contents of the Source object to itself.

Most objects override Assign to handle the assignment of properties from similar objects. When overriding Assign, call the inherited method if the destination object can't handle the assignment of properties from the class of the Source parameter.

If no overridden Assign method can handle the assignment of properties from Source, the method implemented in TPersistent calls the source object's AssignTo method. This allows the source object to handle the assignment. If the Source object is nil (Delphi) or NULL (C++), Assign raises an EConvertError exception.

In general, the statement

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Destination := Source; {Delphi}

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Destination = Source; // C++

is not the same as the statement

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Destination.Assign(Source); {Delphi}

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Destination->Assign(Source); // C++

The assignment operator makes Destination reference the same object as Source, whereas the Assign method copies the contents of the object referenced by Source into the object referenced by Destination.

Note: The types of some properties are also objects. If these properties have write methods that use Assign to set the value of the property, then in these cases the assignment operator does the same thing as the Assign method.