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Question: what is a difference between free and destroy?

February 02, 2008 11:07:27	#1
van_falen	Member Since: February 2008 Total Comments: 1
RE: what is a difference between free and destroy?
If you write your own code to instantiate objects, you are responsible for disposing of them as well. Every object inherits a Destroy method (called a destructor) from TObject. To destroy an object, however, you should call the Free method (also inherited from TObject), because Free checks for a nil reference before calling Destroy. For example, Employee.Free; destroys the Employee object and deallocates its memory.