[Gambas-user] Dynamic Objects

[Benoît Minisini]

> Yes, it is what I thinked... it is simply a matter of explanations. The
> best would be to have a uniform mechanism (and, in fact, it is already
> so, but it could seem unclear). What I want to say is: in object pascal,
> there is no automatic freeing of objects, but when you destroy an object
> which owns other objects, they are destroyed too (this makes sense). It
> does not matter if objects are GUI or non-GUI, the behaviour is always
> the same: if you don't touch them, they live. If you destroy them, they
> die. This is uniform. In gambas this is not possible, because if you
> instantiate a label at runtime, and then exit the routine, you don't
> want your label to be destroyed. But if instead of a label you
> instantiate a Collection, then you loose it, and probably this is what
> you want. Problem is, this is not uniform - 

Just because a GUI widget is owned by its parent, and a GUI top-level window 
is owned by a window list. Otherwise things are uniform. :-)

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Benoît