Free memory

rbuser

Hi,

What I would like to know is: if I create components (as dbText,
subreports, ...) dynamicaly, is it imperative to use a custom preview form?
Or, there is another form to free memory of these components?
And... I create components inside a subreport, if I destroy the subreport,
am I destroying the components too?
Thank you very much...

Bruno Nepomuceno

digitalmetaphors

When you assign the component to a band, the report will take responsibility
for freeing that component when the report is freed.

If you do something like this, then the dbtext will get freed when the
subreport is freed.
...
lSubReport := TppSubReport.Create(Self);
lSubReport.Band := aReport.Detail;
lSubReport.CreateReport(aReport);
lSubReport.Report.CreateDefaultBands;
lSubReport.Report.DataPipeline := ppDBPipeline2;

lDBText := TppDBText.Create(Self);
lDBText.Band := TppBandedReport(lSubReport.Report).Detail;
lDBText.Left := 0.1;
lDBText.Top := 0.0313;
lDBText.Width := 0.625;
lDBText.DataPipeline := ppDBPipeline2;
lDBText.DataField := 'OrderNo';
lDBText.Transparent := True;
lDBText.Font.Name := 'Arial';
lDBText.Font.Size := 10;
lDBText.Font.Style := [];


{frees the dbText}
lSubReport.Free;
...


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors