Learn Delphi Programming | Unit 8.1 | Understanding Events and Event Handlers in Delphi

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Learn Delphi Programming - Unit 8.1. Understanding Events and Event Handlers in Delphi:

Many beginner programmers visualize a Delphi project as a graphical user interface with a unit file that consists of a series of procedures that execute in a sequence. In reality, most programs are event driven - meaning the flow of execution is determined by external occurrences called events.

An event is a signal that informs an application that something important was triggered. An example of this is when a user clicks a button on a form. An OnClick event is triggered and a procedure is called that handles the event. This procedure is known as the event handler for the OnClick event.

Event handlers are procedures that are called when a corresponding event occurs. You can use any valid subroutine/procedure with a matching signature/procedure header as an event handler.

Delphi uses a standard naming convention for event handlers that combines the name of the event sender (the object i.e. btnDisplay) and the name of the event (excluding the “On” prefix). An example of this is the event handler for the OnClick event of a button named btnDisplay that would be named btnDisplayClick.

Events can also allow separate tasks to interact. Let's assume that your program performs a background task, like downloading a file, separately from the main application or process. If a user cancels the download, your application can send a cancel event instructing the download process to stop.

Delphi objects can respond to more than one event. However, an object only has one default event. All the other events are known as the object’s additional events. Each event is associated with its own event handler.

In this tutorial we look at events and event handler. You will see examples of default and additional events for different Delphi objects and how to associate them with their event handlers.

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how do you create a button click event in your delphi application?