>>Hi you all,
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>>Just a quick question for those of you who have used and abused VFP end-of-life additions, VFP collections.
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>>Up to now, I resisted the urge to use VFP collections. They a bit clumsy as compared to the support for them in say python and a couple of other languages ones. But well I decided to use them for a relatively complex VFP task (with text and xml-via-com parsing).
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>>The good news: it worked and was reasonable simple. The bad one: memory leaks and COM -(and VFP-based) objects lost at runtime.
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>>I first had the initial bad reaction most have in front of mem leaks - nobody like these dangling references ! I then read a nice post by Rick Strahl on his great web site. Once i was back to life... I decided to replace a couple of collections with arrays. It worked wonderfully. The garbage collector would get back to work. Good news:)
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>>I still have numbers of VFP collections in this relatively complex pack of code. A few questions on VFP collection good practices:
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>>1) Would you recommend that I drop them all ? Or can we safely keep them for basic purposes such as collection of integers !
>>2) Can you safely add and remove them dynamically with ADDOBJECT and REMOVEOBJECT and expect the garbage to be collected?
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>>Daniel
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>Would you be so kind and post the link to Ricks article?
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>I do not very much with collections in sense of deleting a lot of data. It's basically a fill and query job. I never run into an issue.
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>Coulkd you be more precise wath you do to create ther leakage?

I guess this is the one? https://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/WebLog/ShowEntry.blog?id=692&id=692