Delphi: Call a function whose name is stored in a string

Question

Is it possible to call a function whose name is stored in a string in Delphi?

Answer 1

You can do something like this by crafting one or more classes with published properties that use functions to implement their read and write functionality. The properties can then be discovered using RTTI reflection and referenced, causing the underlying functions to get called.

Alternatively, you can store function pointers in a table, or even the Object property of TStringList and effectively index them by string name.

Straight calling of a function by name is not possible in Delphi.