Question

I Need to access a strict private class var value of a class using his instance and a offset to the variable.

so far tried this , check this sample class

type
  TFoo=class
   strict private class var Foo: Integer;
   public
   constructor Create;
  end;

constructor TFoo.Create;
begin
  inherited;
  Foo:=666;
end;

//this function works only if I declare the foo var as 
//strict private var Foo: Integer;
function GetFooValue(const AClass: TFoo): Integer;
begin
  Result := PInteger(PByte(AClass) + 4)^
end;

As you see the function GetFooValue works only when the foo variable is not declarated like a class var.

The question is how I must modify the GetFooValue in order to get the value of Foo when is declarated like strict private class var Foo: Integer;

Answer 1

To access a strict private class var, Class Helper to rescue.

Example :

type
  TFoo = class
  strict private class var
    Foo : Integer;
  end;

  TFooHelper = class helper for TFoo
  private
    function GetFooValue : Integer;
  public
    property FooValue : Integer read GetFooValue;
  end;

function TFooHelper.GetFooValue : Integer;
begin
  Result:= Self.Foo;  // Access the org class with Self
end;

function GetFooValue( F : TFoo) : Integer;
begin
  Result:= F.GetFooValue;
end;

Var f : TFoo;//don't need to instantiate since we only access class methods

begin
  WriteLn(GetFooValue(f));
  ReadLn;
end.

Updated example to fit the question.