I realize this is a really novice question, so please forgive me (but that
means it should be easy to answer).
When you allocate space for a CharPtr array, like so:
CharPtr someText = new Char[20];
And then you pass that pointer to a palm function, such as:
CtlSetLabel(labelPointer, someText);
What is the proper way to avoid a memory leak? Is the memory that was
allocated freed automatically when the form is unloaded, or do I have to
explicitly destroy it myself, as in:
delete [] someText;
If I try to destroy it myself immediately after I pass it to the function, I
get any number of errors along the lines of:
"The application has just read directly from an unallocated chunk of
memory."
It also occurs to me that I could place the code to free the memory in the
form's unloading event, but I don't really think that's the right answer
either. I have run into a number of areas where once I pass a pointer off
to a system function, I can not safely free the memory, and I just want to
make sure that something is handling it.
-Jeff
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