I've found this is a useful procedure to clean up a straight forward TList.
procedure FreeList(List : TList);
var
eachItem : Integer;
begin
for eachItem := 0 to Pred(List.Count) do
begin
TObject(List.Items[eachItem]).Free;
end;
List.Clear;
List.Free;
end;
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PROBLEMS WITH TLIST.DELETE..?
Hi Gary
for future reference...
a way of solving the wee problem I showed you
a minute ago is to find an algorithm that starts
at the TOP of the list and works downwards,
as opposed to starting at index 0 and working
upwards. Doing it the 'down to' way makes it
easy to handle both the TList.Count property
decremented within the loop and also current
index values that are 'pushed downwards' every
time an object is deleted...
eg
procedure TEntityHandler.DeleteSelectedEntities;
//iterate through all entities: if an entity is
//selected, then delete it from the object list
var
listIdx: Integer;
begin
listIdx := (objectList.Count - 1);
while (listIdx >= 0) do
begin
if (TEntity(objectList.Items[listIdx]).selected = True) then
begin
objectList.Delete(listIdx);
end;
Dec(listIdx);
end;
end;