On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:11:17PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > IIRC, TCollection only stores TCollectionItem derived classes. > > > > > > TList is closer to what you want probably. > > > > Is there an example other than list.pp in the fcl source ? > > > > Also just for the record of knowing... I have attached datanicks.pas > > which hold a dynamic array of TNick ... Is this what TList already does > > (if so I'm wasting my time writing my own code...) ? > > Pretty much yes, but in a class wrapper. You can add and remove items, > iterate through them etc. Maybe you can derive a class from TList to > customize it a bit.
However TList by itself would work though ? > > There are two things to think of: > - you yourself have to make sure that elements are properly freed, so > when deleting object A, get a reference to it, delete it from the list, > and then free the object. (however that can be automized in the class > warpper) Is this all done and automated in TList ? > - The internal list has two counters, instead of just "nNicks". One > (capacity) is the reserved space, the other (count) is the amount of > elements filled. This avoids too many memory fragmenting reallocs. > (but that's better, not worse) > > I learned to use the classes from code snippets written for Delphi. > > There is FCL documentation somewhere (and it will be in the next full > release), but I couldn't find a recent version so fast. > > So I put down a very old version (April 2002) on the web here: > > www.stack.nl/~marcov/fcl.pdf I think it's here also in html format: http://www.nl.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/classes/tlist.html cheers James > > it at least describes the tlist methods. > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal -- - - James Mills Zero Defect Software Engineers Group - ZDSEG _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
