>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I am sorry for bringing up this topic again but I need to clarify something.
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>>>>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.
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>>>Only if all the other references holding a pointer to Form A have been assigned something else or released.
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>>I re-read what you said and I believe now I understand it. Thank you.
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>It is not exactly true
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>The following code
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>do form A
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>will instantiate the form. Form A has no references and it still does not release
I think what Dragan said makes sense. However, my main concern, hence the question here, was that setting a property of form B to NULL does not release form A. I think I finally get it <g>.
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