> From: Brian Smith
>
> Would you say that the life of a form, which serves as
> a "main menu" to get to the rest of the program's
> functions, is a "short duration?" While the program
> is being actively used, this form won't be up for very
> long at all.
> But if the user starts the app, then doesn't start using
> it right away, the form could be the active form for
> quite a long time. (Once again, "what is the sound of
> one man answering his own question?"....)
>
It isn't likely that you are going to actually delete the main form while
your app is running (even though it won't be the active form all the time).
So if you are storing something in memory that isn't a part of the form, but
must be available when the form exists, then you would want to use a
MemHandleNew (and lock it only when you need it) so the OS can move the
memory if it needs to. (Unless it is just a tiny bit of memory, in which
case a global variable might be appropriate.)
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