Counting the number of instances of a user defined class

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From: Pang Fu
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 05:42

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How to count how many instances are created of a user defined class?

In the following example how TMyClass can count the number of instances
(objects created from TMyClass) ?

class TMyClass
{
private :
  static int InstanceCount;
public :
 TMyClass(){
   InstanceCount ++; <--?? How to start from zero and increment?
 }
  ~TMyClass();
};
...
const int N= 456;
for (int i=0; i<N; i++){
  TMyClass *MyObj = new TMyClass();
}

AnsiString S;
S.sprintf("Instance Count :%d", ????How????);

Pang Fu
nospam_pangfu@hotmail.com

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