Creating Custom Objects

This chapter describes the underlying structure of IDL objects and provides the information needed to create a custom object in IDL. This includes information on the object lifecycle, object methods (defining, using, and overriding methods) and custom object examples.

If you are creating objects in iTools, the concepts covered in this chapter are applicable, but you should use the iTool Programming as your reference when creating custom iTools, or iTool components. The iTool Programming provides information and examples of each of the major iTool elements (such as file readers and writers, manipulators, operations, and visualizations), and contains valuable discussions on data and property management within the iTool system.