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 an instance of the TComClassManager class. 

 

DefaultHandler 

Provides the interface for a method that processes message records. 

 

Destroy 

Destroys an instance of TComClassManager. 

 

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. 

 

ForEachFactory 

Processes iterative actions on factories associated with a given server. 

 

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. 

 

GetFactoryFromClass 

Returns the class factory for a given COM class. 

 

GetFactoryFromClassID 

Returns the class factory for a given COM class identifier. 

 

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.