When i make a new TForm i get the constructor automatically but i dont
get a destructor.

If i create a variable with new in the constructor i want to delete it in
the destructor. Can i just supply my own destructor code?

// ---- Example start ----------------------------
__fastcall TMyForm(TComponent* Owner)
    : TForm(Owner)
{
    pVar = new TSomeClass;

__fastcall ~TMyForm(TComponent* Owner)
    : TForm(Owner)
{
    delete pVar;
// ---- Example end ----------------------------

Absolutely!

Note:  the __fastcall *is* required as you are overriding the virtual
destructor of the base class, which is in turn declared __fastcall.

An alternative might appear to be the OnCreate/OnDestroy events, but
there have been numerous postings over the years why these don't work as
well in BCB as they do in Delphi (due to different
construction/destruction orders between the languages).

The only thing I might suggest as a further refinement would be to store
TSomeClass as some kind of auto_ptr for better resource protection.
Bsaically, if your constructor throws an exception, your destructor is
not called, but if you wrap the pointer in a smart-pointer class, and
construct it in your initialiser list, the smart-pointer destructor will
be called, even though your form class destructor isn't.

AlisdairM

"AlisdairM" <alisdair.meredith@NO_SPAM_PLEASE.benettonformula.com> wrote in
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When you create the Dtor, you need the __fastcall but you shouldn't have any
args in the arg list, nor should you be declaring it as derived from TForm.
A Dtor is automatically called when the object is destroyed.  It doesn't
need to have an owner specified.  I believe that both of these will give
compile errors at any rate.

Try simply:   __fastcall ~TMyForm();

Oops, my bad!  Not reading clearly today :? (

Thanks for the long-stop Duane.

AlisdairM

Mats G?rdstad Friberg <mats.g.frib...@datarutin.se> writes:

Yes, but destructors do not take any parameters.  

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