Name 

Description 

Classes and Objects 

This topic covers the following material:

• Declaration syntax of classes
• Inheritance and scope
• Visibility of class members
• Forward declarations and mutually dependent classes

 

Fields 

This topic describes the syntax of class data fields declarations. 

Methods 

A method is a procedure or function associated with a class. A call to a method specifies the object (or, if it is a class method, the class) that the method should operate on. For example, SomeObject.Free calls the Free method in SomeObject.
This topic covers the following material:

• Methods declarations and implementation
• Method binding
• Overloading methods
• Constructors and destructors
• Message methods

 

6 - Properties 

This topic describes the following material:

• Property access
• Array properties
• Index specifiers
• Storage specifiers
• Property overrides and redeclarations
• Class properties

 

Events 

This topic describes the following material:

• Event properties and event handlers
• Triggering multiple event handlers

 

Class References 

Sometimes operations are performed on a class itself, rather than on instances of a class (that is, objects). This happens, for example, when you call a constructor method using a class reference. You can always refer to a specific class using its name, but at times it is necessary to declare variables or parameters that take classes as values, and in these situations you need class-reference types.
This topic covers the following material:

• Class reference types
• Class operators

 

Exceptions 

This topic covers the following material:

• A conceptual overview of exceptions and exception handling
• Declaring exception types
• Raising and handling exceptions

 

Nested Type Declarations 

Type declarations can be nested within class declarations. Nested types are used throughout object-oriented programming in general. They present a way to keep conceptually related types together, and to avoid name collisions. The same syntax for declaring nested types may be used with the Win32 Delphi compiler. 

Operator Overloading 

This topic describes Delphi's operator methods and how to overload them. 

Class Helpers 

This topic describes the syntax of class helper declarations.