> What I'm glad I finally did get out of my questioning was Rob's > information on how use within an array inhibits the normal reference > counting Delphi uses as I never would have considered that > and would have > ended up with some pretty nasty memory leaks that would be
I'm not sure I follow you here. I only have one message from Rob on this thread and he doesn't say anything of this sort. But I doubt he would have explained it quite so simply. I don't agree Robert that "use within an array inhibits the normal reference counting...." It's not that "use within the array" that causes the problem here. Regardless of how you hang on to created "things" be they variabled, record, objects, etc. it /is/ possible to for ref. counted types to break this handling if you don't insure you at least keep things with typed pointers. For example, if you wanted an array of string pointers use pstring not the generic pointer type and the ref. counting mechanism should remain intact. In fact, you can even typecast them, as long as they exist as pstrings you'll be ok. But in my experience, if you encounter this problem there is usually an alternative but I wouldn't place the blame on arrays per se. Regards, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Burns, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technology Dynamics Pearland, Texas USA 281 485-0410 / 281 813-6939 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
