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Re: Creating new TForm causes 'Out of Resources' error on WinXP

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:02
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"Dan Mayo" <dmayo@dickey-john.com> wrote in message
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> Is there anything wrong with doing destruction of a form like this?
> theForm->Release();
> Application->ProcessMessages();

Technically no, but it is not the right way to free the form in this
situation.

> I was noticing without ProcessMessages that theForm was still in
memory..

That is because the message posted by Release() is not processed, so
the form is not freed.

> Is there a better way?

You already know a better way - use 'delete' instead.  There is
nothing in your code that warrants the use of Release().


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