Is there some way I could pass a  *property*  as a parameter?!?

What I need to do (well, don't *need* really, just curious if it's possible) is pass a property
name or other reference as a parameter in order to be able to access it in another object.
The purpose is to send a list of properties and a list of corresponding field names in a
database to an object which assigns the values from the database fields to the actual
properties.

Something like

    myObject.dbObject.dbProperties := <list with propertynames and property types>
    myObject.dbObject..dbFieldNames := <list with field names and field types>

    myObject.dbObject.ReadFromDB;

and in dbObject.ReadFromDB:

    for x := 0 to dbProperties.count - 1 do
        dbProperties[x] := queryobject.fieldbyName(dbFieldNames[x]).asWhatevertype;

I realize the code above isn't  correct, but it should  illustrate what I'm looking for. I hope :-)

Any help would be appreciated!

                        Kim Johnsson

- a property is just another variable, effectively. So if have a new class, say

tmclass = class

property no1 : string;
property no2 : string;
end;

var
mclass : tclass;

and some proc

procedure myproc : string);

then these are all ok
myproc(no1);
myproc(no2);

as is

mclass,no1 := no2; etc

Boris Ingram, Cyborg Software
boris...@iafrica.com
http://www.pcb.co.za/users/borising/cyborg.htm