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Jos� <jose@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
> [...] I thought "new TEdit"

If you intend to use access the control after it's been
allocated, then you'll need to define a pointer for it
somewhere:

    private:
        TEdit *MyEdit;

then you need to allocate it and assign some properties:

    MyEdit = new TEdit( this );
    MyEdit->Parent = this;
    MyEdit->Left = 10;
    MyEdit->Top = 10;
    // set other properties as needed

Note that when it's allocated, an Owner is assigned and when
an object has an Owner, you need not worry about deleting it
because that's what the Owner is for. The Parent is where the 
control will live on-screen. For example, the 'this' pointer
referes to the class from which it's used and the TForm is
assumed here so the result will be a TEdit at (10,10).

For objects that do not have an Owner, you need to manually
destroy them before the application terminates. For example:

    delete MyEdit;

To be clear, even if the objects has an Owner, you can still
manually delete it.

~ JD