Re: dynamic object creation

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:41:17 +0200, "B.r.K.o.N.j.A."
<thebrkonja@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>All classes are descendent of one base class, they have no new methods just
>different implementations of base ones. Basicaly I need to get different
>calculation object according to value stored in database.

>Does this simplify things?

It certainly changes things.

Which comes first the Object or the thing in the database ?

My hunch is the thing in the database

Are you after something like:

ABaseClass := TSomeClass.Create( FlagFromDataBase );

ABaseClass.DoCalcs;

Where ABaseClass contains some descendant of TBaseClass ?

A bit like passing some descendant of a TStream down to a procedure,
but the other way round. ??


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