Hi Bevan
I see, it is C.
I have managed to get it to work! if I make it a static array rather than dynamic (as
in the C example).
eg. categories : array[0..500] of TStringList
I would rather have it dynamic because the number of elements is unknown. Is there
no easy way around it?
Ross.
Bevan Edwards wrote:
> Ross, that's C/C++ code, not Delphi.
>
> I'm not quite sure of the Delphi equivalent, but it's basically creating
> a type called MyLists which is a pointer to a TStringList.
>
> the MyLists* MyStrings = new Test[10] basically allocates memory to hold
> an array of 10 TStringList pointers.
>
> the next part, goes through each element of the array and creates a new
> TStringList for each entry of the array.
>
> I hope that helps in some way.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bevan
>
> Ross Levis wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Mark, but I don't want anything complicated. I'm very new to Delphi &
> > I'm probably going about it the wrong way. Though I found the following code
> > on the net which is suppose to provide an array of tstringlist but I don't
> > understand the syntax. I think it's from an old version of Delphi. Is someone
> > able to give me the Delphi 5 equivilent syntax?
> >
> > typedef TStringList * MyLists;
> > MyLists * MyStrings = new Test[10];
> > for (int i =0; i <10; i++)
> > MyStrings[i] = new TStringList;
> >
> > Ross.
> >
> > Mark Derricutt wrote:
> >
> > > SOunds like you could do with my TStringCollection comp, email me in the
> > > morning and I'll forward the code when I get to work in the morning.
> > >
> > > --On Thursday, July 05, 2001 21:55:54 +1200 Ross Levis
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was hoping the following would work but it appears not. It compiles
> > > > OK but produces memory errors at runtime. Why doesn't the compiler
> > > > complain if TSringList can't be used in an array?
> > > >
> > >
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