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zea YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	delete instance of class? Oct 28th, 2008, 4:49am   Hy, i have a program that use multiple classes, and i would like to create and kill the instances in run time, something like: Code: if (key == 'a'){ myClass = new Class(); } if (key == 'b'){ kill myClass } it is possible? thanks in advance.

JohnG Ex Member	Re: delete instance of class? Reply #1 - Oct 28th, 2008, 12:31pm   You can't explicitly delete an instance of a class, you just stop referring to it, and it'll get cleaned up. e.g. myObj=new Fooclass(); ... myObj=null; // now we don't refer to it, it'll get deleted. or even: myObj=new Fooclass(0); ... myObj=new Fooclass(1); // the Fooclass(0) instance is now not refered to and will get deleted.

zea YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Re: delete instance of class? Reply #2 - Oct 28th, 2008, 7:36pm   thanks JohnG!