I’ve been having problems with RAD Studio XE components triggering a cascade of events – like when component A in-code modification altered content of component B which triggered change in component C etc.
Long story short – made some blocking mechanism via RAII pattern. Multiple of them, depending on the type of event I needed to be blocked, like OnSelect or OnChange:

template<typename T, typename N>
class TOnChangeEventBlocker
{
public:
    TOnChangeEventBlocker(T* object)
        :m_pObject(object)
        ,m_pNotifyEvent(object->OnChange)
    {
        if (m_pObject)
        {
            m_pObject->OnChange = NULL;
        }
    }

    ~TOnChangeEventBlocker()
    {
        if (m_pObject)
        {
            m_pObject->OnChange = m_pNotifyEvent;
        }
    }
private:
    T* const    m_pObject;
    N           m_pNotifyEvent;
};

Is there a way to make it more generic? Make it work with the __property exposed private event handlers?

Instead of writing a plethora of event blockers have: one, simple, generic TEventBlocker.

m_pObject->/*something here*/ = m_pNotifyEvent;

It’s a legacy code and RAD Studio XE project – not much of c++11 there.

Source: Windows Questions C++