[Gambas-user] life of an object

[Hugo]

Thanks Benoit, I declared one static public variable in the form as you
suggested but I'm still having the same problem, did I misunderstand you ?
what am I doing wrong ?

thanks again

Hugo

On 01/12/05, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 22:44, Hugo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > when a form is closed , can I still get some atributes of it , or is it
> > garbage collected right after one closes it, trouble is I need to get
> some
> > data from a form I show to the user.
> > I do something like this:
> > sub getAnswerFromUser()
> >   Dim frm as SomeForm
> >   dim st as string
> >   frm = NEW SomeForm
> >   frm.title = 'Some Title'
> >   frm.show()
> >   st = frm.someAtt    'at this point a get Invalid Object runtime error
> >   return st 'this should be the answer
> > end
> > is this code correct ?
> >
> > thanks for any help
> > Hugo
>
> This code is correct, but a form becomes invalid as soon as it is deleted.
>
> frm.Show() should show the form modeless, except if a modal window is
> already
> displayed. Then it is shown modal. So it may be destroyed when frm.Show()
> terminates.
>
> If you want to have public variables in the form to return some
> information,
> make them static. Static variables don't need any object to be valid.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
>
>
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