[DUG] Compnent creation question

[Paul Heinz]

Rob wrote: 

> Sounds likely.  I am calling it BEFORE inherited destroy.
> 
> Off home now.   hopefully all will fall into place in the morning !

I just noticed you said it happens when you use the .Items property. So
David Moorhouse is bang on (and succinct too!)

The TStrings Wrapper is trying to talk to the COMBO control, by design.
Obviously not supported in destructors. Bugger. The lifetime of Window
handles against MS builtin controls are subtle and they are quick to
anger.

I'm somewhat surprised that the Window handle is already verboten before
calling inherited like you're doing. Mind you, it might be a
csDestroying 'prevent other even nastier issues' sort of thing.

You'll probably need to eat your young before the Window handle is AWOL,
or there may be a way to stop the TStrings wrapper from trying to talk
to it's twin who's rotting in the grave already (to so speak :-)

<insert toothless crone in gypsy shawl impersonation>:
"I see a tall, handsome,.. I mean steaming chunk of VCL source code to
read and step through (or in?) in your future."

TTFN,
  Paul.

P.S. 
Apologies to all for the whole bad horror fiction vibe. I have a short
story first draft incubating in my subconscious for revision/rewrite and
it just keeps lurching up and grabbing at me... Which is sort of good
thing. Hrmmmph... I'll stop now.