Property Getter/Setters

[qsrtech]

Hi Erel, any timeline on when property getters and setters will be implemented?

Thanks!
John

 

[Erel]

It is in the planned features list. I'm sorry but I do not know when it will be added.

 

[qsrtech]

Hi Erel, I appreciate it is probably a lot of work to implement this feature but it's kind of pretty crucial to being an OOP language. Look forward to seeing your update including this.

Thanks!
John

 

[Sergio Haurat]

Erel, This is in development yet?

 

[JakeBullet70]

Properties
Starting from B4A v2.70, classes support properties. Properties syntax can be considered a syntactic sugar.
Properties combine two methods into a single "field" like member.
For example the two following methods:
Code:

'Gets or sets the text
Sub getText As String
   Return btn.Text
End Sub

Sub setText(t As String)
   btn.Text = t
End Sub

Are merged automatically into a single property:

The property can be treated like any other field:


look here for class tutorial.