Table of Contents

Preface; Not Your Father’s Pascal; Delphi for Linux; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; For More Information; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Delphi Pascal; 1.1 Units; 1.2 Programs; 1.3 Libraries; 1.4 Packages; 1.5 Data Types; 1.6 Variables and Constants; 1.7 Exception Handling; 1.8 File I/O; 1.9 Functions and Procedures; Chapter 2: The Delphi Object Model; 2.1 Classes and Objects; 2.2 Interfaces; 2.3 Reference Counting; 2.4 Messages; 2.5 Memory Management; 2.6 Old-Style Object Types; Chapter 3: Runtime Type Information; 3.1 Virtual Method Table; 3.2 Published Declarations; 3.3 The TypInfo Unit; 3.4 Virtual and Dynamic Methods; 3.5 Initialization and Finalization; 3.6 Automated Methods; 3.7 Interfaces; 3.8 Exploring RTTI; Chapter 4: Concurrent Programming; 4.1 Threads and Processes; 4.2 The TThread Class; 4.3 The BeginThread and EndThread Functions; 4.4 Thread Local Storage; 4.5 Processes; 4.6 Futures; Chapter 5: Language Reference; Chapter 6: System Constants; 6.1 Variant Type Codes; 6.2 Open Array Types; 6.3 Virtual Method Table Offsets; 6.4 Runtime Error Codes; Chapter 7: Operators; 7.1 Unary Operators; 7.2 Multiplicative Operators; 7.3 Additive Operators; 7.4 Comparison Operators; Chapter 8: Compiler Directives; Command-Line Tools; The SysUtils Unit; Errors and Exceptions; File Management; String Management; Numeric Conversion; Dates and Times; Localization; Modules; Windows; Miscellaneous;