Hungarian notation

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Hungarian notation in a coding style adopted by MS for C development under Windows. This variable naming technique claims to harmonize, to improve the readability of the existing variables, so to save time. Here is an example list, neither official nor fixed (the prefixes are usually based on the information theory, which concludes that consonants can be inferred in the middle of vowels. It uses too, the Camel case notation a lot). The name refection tool is perfect to use this technique easily.




Miscellaneous types:

F       Property Variable
T       Type
P       Type of pointer to another type
On      Event


Basic types:

b       Boolean
c       Char
s       String
d       for all reals\floats as Double, Extended, ...
i       for all integers as Integer, Long Integer, Smallint, ...
p       Generic Pointer
pz      PChar
...\...


Published name (controls):

btn       TButton; ex.: btnFoo1
               bbtn    TBitmap Button
               optbtn  TOption Button
               sbtn    TSpeedButton
chk       TCheck Box
cbx       TComboBox
cmp       TComponent
db        TDatabase
dts       TDataSource
edt       TEdit Box
frm       TForm
grd       TDrawGrid
               sgrd   TString Grid
               dbgrd  TDBGrid
img       Image
itm       TMenuItem
lbl       TLabel
lbx       TListbox2
               dblbx  TDBListbox
mnu       TMainMenu
               pmnu   TPopup Menu
mem       TMemo
notbk     TNotebook
tabs      TTabset
tabnotbk  Tabbed Notebook
hdr       THeader
outl      TOutline2
pnl       TPanel
tbl       TTable
qry       TQuery
timr      Timer
fld       TField
inif      TIniFile
...\...


Components \ Objects:

oSL       String List; ex.: oSLfoo
oStrm     TStream; ex.: oStrmFoo
...\...


Miscellaneous notable scope:

g  means Global, wheras its type (simple or object)


Memory scope management:

o  means, from a memory scope management, that oMyObj must be freed within the scope of its declaration; ex.: oMyObject; ex.: goMyObject
o_ means, from a memory scope management, that o_myObj must not be freed here, i.e. must not be freed in the scope of its declaration!; ex: o_myObj