Multiple interfaces

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In Delphi a class can be derived from multiple interfaces. Interfaces in last instance have to be derived from IInterface, which in Delphi is the same as IUnknown, C++ however uses IUnknown from MS Windows, which has the abstract methods: AddRef, Release and QueryInterface. In Delphi analogous methods are defined automatically, when a class is derived from Delphi's IInterface (=IUnknown). In C++ however, the implementations have to be defined explicitly. Therefore a macro is inserted into class declaration:

#define INTFOBJECT_IMPL_IUNKNOWN(BASE) \

   ULONG   __stdcall AddRef() { return BASE::AddRef();} \

   ULONG   __stdcall Release(){ return BASE::Release();} \

   HRESULT __stdcall QueryInterface(REFIID iid, void** p){ return BASE::QueryInterface(iid, p);}

An class declaration then for example looks like:

class TCar : public System::TInterfacedObject, public IRecyclable

{

public:

INTFOBJECT_IMPL_IUNKNOWN(System::TInterfacedObject)

...

More details to this subject can be found here:

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Inheritance_and_Interfaces

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