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YAQ on dangling reference
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01539685
Message ID:
01539726
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>Hi,
>
>I am sorry for bringing up this topic again but I need to clarify something.
>
>Say a Form A calls a Form B and passes to the form B the value of itself (THISFORM). In the INIT method of Form B the value of the passed THISFORM (or Form A) is assigned to the form property FormB_ReferenceFormA. So now the Form B property FormB_ReferenceFormA hold the value referencing the form A.
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>Then if somewhere in the form Form B the code sets the value of FormB_ReferenceFormA to NULL, does it actually release Form A? TIA.

As long as any reference to form A exists then FormA will exists. If the property of formB is the only reference to formA then NULLing the property will destroy the form. When there is a dependency like this it is important to ensure that the "go away" code in FormA takes care of destroying FormB if it exists. That way FormA cleans up its own mess on trying to go away and no other code that wants FormA to go away needs to know anything about FormA's dependency on FormB.
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