Hierarchy

The base class type that is ancestor to all other classes

Description

The TObject type defines the base class type. It is the oldest grandparent of all classes - every class is ultimately derived from TObject. Because of this, every object inherits the methods of TObject. The TObject methods fall into two categories - class and non-class. When prefixed by the keyword Class, a method may be called in both an object of the class, and in the class itself. Such a static method cannot access any class fields because a class has no data itself - only instantiated classes - objects - have data.

static methods
ClassName
ClassParent
ClassType
Object Methods
Create
Free
Destroy

Static Methods

ClassName

Gives the class name as a string.

ClassParent

Gives the class parent name.

ClassType

Gives class type name as TClass.

Object Methods

Create

Empty object creator.

Free

Calls Destroy for a non-nil object ref.

Destroy

Releases object storage.

TObject for Delphi Web Script

In traditional Object Pascal all classes inherit from a root type called TObject. This was also the case for Delphi Web Script, from which Smart Pascal evolved. In order to better be able to import classes written in Javascript - which is extremely important with regards to having full support for the DOM (document object model) and the full spectrum of JavaScript modules - dependency on TObject as the root of all class types had to be altered. See for instance, TVariant in the example bellow:

 Simple example