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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you had looked at the code Kyley posted last
week (Donation and Discussion), you would have seen an example of where
initialization and finalization can be used to good effect. See attached
code!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Todd.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=paul.a.norman@gmail.com href="mailto:paul.a.norman@gmail.com">Paul A
Norman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=delphi@ns3.123.co.nz
href="mailto:delphi@ns3.123.co.nz">NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi
List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 19, 2006 4:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] Usage - initialization
and finalization</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for all of that everybody.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Kyely, the information on scope, and also the non-existance yet of the
Application object during <STRONG>Initialization</STRONG> is very helpful
thanks.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You don't
always have to use initialization to create and finalize to destroy. That
would be very resource hungry."</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I was thinking of it as an alternative, like <STRONG>Initialization
</STRONG>as the point to create gloabl UNIT wide VAR .TstringLists etc ..
instead of during .onFormCreate, and for freeing stringlists etc .. during
<STRONG>Finalization</STRONG> instead of during
.<STRONG>onDestroy</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Reason being . . </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I was wondering whether there are any circumstances where using
Finilization to .<STRONG>free</STRONG> objects is more reliable than
.<STRONG>ondestroy </STRONG>? </DIV>
<DIV>Is Finalization called after Tform.<STRONG>onDestroy</STRONG>, or does it
failsafe even if onDestroy fails for some system
reason?<BR><BR>Paul</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>