Delphi 8 introduced Class Helpers for the purposes of mapping the VCL/RTL to the .NET object hierarchy. They allow injecting methods into an existing class without overriding the the class or modifying the original. Later versions of Delphi found class helpers improved and they were ported to Win32. In the help it says "they should no...
I'm using Delphi 2009. Is it possible to write a class helper for a generic class, i.e. for TQueue . The obvious TQueueHelper <T> = class helper of TQueue <T> ... end; does not work, nor does TQueueHelper = class helper of TQueue ... end; ...
Does the extended RTTI in Delphi 2010 offer a way to list defined Class and Record Helpers at run time? As far as I know Delphi does not show a hint or warning when more than one class helper is defined for a class, class helper detection might be a helpful routine in 'quality assurance'. p.s. of course I know I should never ever use t...
I'm currently rewriting a free educational digital circuit simulator to add inertiality to its features. My problem is how to dispatch events to original classes adding a pre-elaboration to them. I have something like this: TC1 = class ID: integer; Connections : array [integer] of Pin; function Func1; virtual; function FuncN; en...