Delete or Destroy?
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Which should I use to delete the instance of class CLadder? OPTION1 or OPTION2? Or something else? CLadder is a dialog class. //OPTION 1 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... delete pLD; //OPTION 2 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... pLD->DestroyWindow();
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Which should I use to delete the instance of class CLadder? OPTION1 or OPTION2? Or something else? CLadder is a dialog class. //OPTION 1 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... delete pLD; //OPTION 2 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... pLD->DestroyWindow();
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Which should I use to delete the instance of class CLadder? OPTION1 or OPTION2? Or something else? CLadder is a dialog class. //OPTION 1 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... delete pLD; //OPTION 2 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... pLD->DestroyWindow();
It's my understanding that DestroyWindow really just destroy's the HWND (releases the window handle). The window object should still be intact. It's very handy to step into that code with the debugger.
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Which should I use to delete the instance of class CLadder? OPTION1 or OPTION2? Or something else? CLadder is a dialog class. //OPTION 1 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... delete pLD; //OPTION 2 CLadder* pLD; pLD = new CLadder: ... ... ... pLD->DestroyWindow();
DestroyWindowis the counterpart toCreateand is about the windows-window, the thing you see on screen.deleteis the counterpart ofnewand is about C++ classes and memory management.
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