Protecting Methods

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All parts of classes, including fields, methods, and properties, have a level of protection or "visibility," as explained in Controlling Access. Choosing the appropriate visibility for a method is simple.

Most methods you write in your components are public or protected. You rarely need to make a method private, unless it is truly specific to that type of component, to the point that even derived components should not have access to it.

Topics

• Methods That Should Be Protected
• Methods That Should Be Public
• Abstract Methods

See Also

• Creating Methods - Overview
• Making Methods Virtual
• Declaring Methods
• Example of Declaring Methods

• Windows Developer's Guide
• Delphi