It requires and plugs into the BlackBox Component Builder 1.4 . The seamless integration of COM into a dynamic, object-oriented language is a world premiere. The DTC Compiler was nominated as a Finalist in BYTE Magazines' Best of CeBIT'96 competition. The DTC compiler relieves programmers from cumbersome and error-prone manual memory management.
Programs become more reliable and maintainable.
COM objects implemented with the DTC compiler can be used from any other language, and COM objects implemented in any language can be used from Component Pascal. COM is the foundation of OLE and ActiveX. Reference counting errors are the number one source of errors when programming to these interfaces. The compiler automatically calls an object's AddRef and Release methods where necessary. When a COM object is no longer used, it is automatically removed from memory. With the DTC compiler, reference counting errors simply will not occur.