Hallo to everybody! I'm new here. Very nice Forum!
I hope that somenone could help me!

I would like to know why it is not possible to declare a dinamic array of VCL objects.

e.g.:

TButton *DinamVett=new TButton[Max_Dim];

I would like that Max_Dim is a variable and not a constant. How can I obtain this? Is there another way to do it?


Thank you!

In the Delphi and C++Builder environments, an "object" is a "pointer." When you execute the constructor, by means of New, three things happen:

• A block of memory is allocated and set entirely to zero. This will include space for the object description record (positioned at a negative offset from the returned pointer), the object's private and public variables, and the method-table pointers.
• The object's constructor(s) are called to initialize the new object.
• A pointer to the memory-block is returned as the return-value of New.

You can use this return-value in a number of ways. One very convenient way to store it is to put it in a TList, which you'll see that the VCL itself does in many places. (For example, a TForm contains a list of all the controls that exist on it.) You can assign it to a local variable. By any of these means you can then invoke the object's properties and methods.

I think you'll accomplish what you want by using a TList.

Bear in mind: There is no "reference counting" for objects and no automatic cleanup: what you New, you must also eventually Free. Before you delete the TList you'll probably need to iterate through it and Free everything that it points to.