AddHandler with parameter

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Having a senior moment. I’m trying do do an AddHandler for a method with a parameter. The method has the following signature

Private Sub GetListOfMails(sender as Thread, StartFolderitem as FolderItem)

How do I do the AddHandler?

   AddHandler FileThread.Run, AddressOf GetListOfMails, FileThread, StartFolderitem

is giving me a type mismatch error.

2

Just do:

AddHandler FileThread.Run, AddressOf GetListOfMails

Your event definition needs to be:

GetListOfMails(StartFolderitem as FolderItem)

And your raise:

RaiseEvent FileThread.Run(StartFolderitem)

3

Or declare

Private Sub GetListOfMails(sender as Thread, StartFolderitem as Auto)

And call

AddHandler FileThread.Run, AddressOf GetListOfMails, FileThread, StartFolderitem
4

The problem is that is that addhandler doesn’t take the params, just the address:

AddHandler eventName, delegateMethod

5

[quote=373972:@]The problem is that is that addhandler doesn’t take the params, just the address:

AddHandler eventName, delegateMethod[/quote]
Sorry I was wrong, you were right Julian. My way describes the Xojo.Core.Timer.CallLater Method!

6

Thanks, Julian, but this doesn’t work:

AddHandler FileThread.Run, AddressOf GetListOfMails FileThread.Run(theFileSelection(currentSelection))

The first line makes a an error “expected Delegate(Thread), but got Delegate(Thread, Folderitem)”. The second line makes the error “too many arguments”.

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[quote=373971:@Martin T]Or declare

Private Sub GetListOfMails(sender as Thread, StartFolderitem as Auto)

And call

AddHandler FileThread.Run, AddressOf GetListOfMails, FileThread, StartFolderitem

i susped it should be this. As AddHandler takes only the address, it will pass on the called parameters.

8

@Derk Jochems: this was what I started with which doesn’t work.

9

You can’t pass a FolderItem into a handler for Thread.Run

10

@ : yes, I noticed that. There is no raise event in my code, however.

11

This thread has several misconceptions here.

  • First, in order to use add hander, you should match event definition.

  • Second, Thread.Run take no argument. So, this is invalid definition.

Private Sub GetListOfMails(sender as Thread, StartFolderitem as FolderItem)
  • Third, AddHandler syntax
AddHandler eventName, delegateMethod
  • Fourth, delegateMethod should in format
Sub delegateMethod(sender as <SenderObject>, <the_rest_of_event_definition>)

or

Function delegateMethod(sender as <SenderObject>, <the_rest_of_event_definition>) as datatype  //again should match event definition
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@Asis Patisahusiwa : you are fully correct. But how do I get my folderitem into the thread?

13

The easy way is to extends thread, add property StartFolderitem as FolderItem to the class.

Your code will be like this

dim th as New CustomThread
th.StartFolderitem = StartFolderitem
th.Run
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Or create a subclass with an event getListOfMails(StartFolderItem as folderItem)
and in you run event you can raise theEvent.

where you create the addHandler then you can write:
AddHandler FileThread.getListOfMails, AddressOf GetListOfMails

and your GetListOfMails method can have the signature: Private Sub GetListOfMails(sender as Thread, StartFolderitem as FolderItem)

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Another idea: subclass the Thread, implement a Protected Run method that just calls super.Run, then add a method that takes whatever parameters you need. (You can even call that method “Run” if you’d like.)

dim th as new CustomThread
th.Process( f ) // Process will store the parameter and call Run

// In the Thread subclass
Protected Sub Run ()
  super.Run
End Sub

Sub Process (f As FolderItem)
  MyFolderProp = f
  Run
End Sub

The consumer will not be able to call Run directly on this subclass.

16

Now it makes sense, nope you can’t change the method signature.

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Thanks for the ideas, guys. I wanted to do without subclassing the thread but it seems that this is necessary. Will try tomorrow.