In our previous episode, michael.vancann...@wisa.be said: > >> At some point, there must be an object, and at some point, there is a > >> typecast, > > > > You often can't reroot external components, but if they support tcomponent > > What does "reroot external components" mean ?
(Change the root of their inheritance tree. e.g. something that doesn't inherit from interfacedobject to inherit from it) > > (and thus Tinterfacedobject), you can add an interface in a child class. > > The interfaces are CORBA, so there is no need for TInterfacedObject. Ok. I assumed they also had to be COM compatible because of tiopf. > That the interface is CORBA was a conscious decision so reference counting > and all the overhead associated with it was avoided. As far as I know, this > rules out COM provided interfaces (if this is what you refer to by external > components). That is a tradeoff I find acceptable. For me personally that is unacceptable. But that is not with just an FPC hat on. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
