Automated Directive
The
automated
directive denotes a section of a class
declaration where subsequent method and property declarations are
stored for use in COM automation servers. An
automated
method declaration is like a
public
declaration, but the compiler stores
additional RTTI for the methods, namely, the type of each parameter
and the return type if the method is a function. Chapter 3, describes in detail the format of the RTTI
tables that store the method signatures.
Automated declarations are obsolete. You should use type libraries and interfaces instead, which give you much more power and flexibility.