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;