> Makes sense, but how long is that, exactly? If I have two forms in my
> application, and the main form initializes the data in my gadgets, and the
> other form reads data from and writes data to the gadgets (but doesn't
> display the gadgets), how do I get to the gadgets' data when I'm on the
> second form? Example: I have 5 gadgets on the main screen, and each gadget
well.. doing that.. you should maybe initialize on startup of app
and clean up on termination of app.
> Also (I know, this is a lot of questions...) - Right now, my initialization
> of the gadgets occurs whenever a frmOpenEvent is received by my main form
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> keep the gadgets and their data around? There has to be a way, or gadgets
> would be of very limited use...
how about allocating a chunk of memory for your globals at startup,
store the pointer in a feature.. and, then, get the feature and
point to the data area youi want to use in the gadget?
when app is done, free memory chunk and unregister feature
// az
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