Ken Linder wrote:

The Object Inspector is a development tool that allows the developer to 'non-programaticaly' set the properties of an object before instantiation. Here is a quick example:

... published Caption : string; Status : (Maximized, Minimized, DontKnow); SomeNum : integer; ... Lets say the above is part of an object that can be 'dragged' onto the desired window. (Yes, I know I am talking Windows here) Selecting the object after it is dragged onto the window will make the 'object inspector' display all 'published' properties of that object. The object inspector will allow the programmer to enter some string for Caption, select one of the enumerated values for Status, and an integer for SomeNum. At run-time the object inspector don't exist. It is strictly part of the Delphi (and C++ builder) development tool.

AFAI understand it, it's just some form of debugger, isn't it? (Typical for all the Windoze hype to introduce new names for the same old things...?) I think, changing values of object fields can be done with any debugger.

Anyway, so the difference between "published" and "public" is just relevant to the debugger, not to the compiled program?