TFiler Members

The following tables list the members exposed by TFiler.

	Name	Description
	SetRoot	This is SetRoot, a member of class TFiler.

Public Methods

	Name	Description
	AfterConstruction	Responds after the last constructor has executed.
	BeforeDestruction	Responds before the first destructor executes.
	ClassInfo	Returns a pointer to the runtime type information (RTTI) table for the object type.
	ClassName	Returns a string indicating the type of the object instance (as opposed to the type of the variable passed as an argument).
	ClassNameIs	Determines whether an object is of a specific type.
	ClassParent	Returns the type of the immediate ancestor of a class.
	ClassType	Returns the class reference for the object's class.
	CleanupInstance	Performs finalization on long strings, variants, and interface variables within a class.
	Create	Creates a filer object.
	DefaultHandler	Provides the interface for a method that processes message records.
	DefineBinaryProperty	Introduces an abstract method that allows descendants to read and write unformatted data like a property.
	DefineProperty	Introduces an abstract method that allows descendants to read or write data like a property.
	Destroy	Destroys a filer object.
	Dispatch	Calls message-handling methods for the object, based on the contents of the Message parameter.
	FieldAddress	Returns the address of a published object field.
	FlushBuffer	Introduces an abstract method that allows descendants to synchronize the filer's buffer with its stream.
	Free	Destroys an object and frees its associated memory, if necessary.
	FreeInstance	Deallocates memory allocated by a previous call to the System::TObject::NewInstance method.
	GetInterface	Retrieves a specified interface.
	GetInterfaceEntry	Returns the entry for a specific interface implemented in a class.
	GetInterfaceTable	Returns a pointer to a structure containing all of the interfaces implemented by a given class.
	InheritsFrom	Determines the relationship of two object types.
	InitInstance	Initializes a newly allocated object instance to all zeros and initializes the instance's virtual method table pointer.
	InstanceSize	Returns the size in bytes of each instance of the object type.
	MethodAddress	This is MethodAddress, a member of class TObject.
	MethodName	This is MethodName, a member of class TObject.
	NewInstance	Allocates memory for an instance of an object type and returns a pointer to that new instance.
	SafeCallException	Handles exceptions in methods declared using the safecall calling convention.

Public Properties

	Name	Description
	Ancestor	Determines whether to write the properties of inherited components.
	IgnoreChildren	Enables a writer object to save a component without saving the components it owns.
	LookupRoot	Specifies the root component for resolving names while loading and saving components.
	Root	Indicates which object is the root, or ultimate owner, of the objects read or written by the filer.

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