setting objects to Nothing

hi

i am creating an new object every time and then at the end of
what i am doing i then set it to nothing


set obj = new COMobj

set obj = nothing

but this seems to be leaking / increasing the memory
does this nothing statement actually work - does it destroy
the obj or is there another way of doing this


thanks
Louby

You're doing it right.

The question is, does the object that is being set to nothing do it's own memory cleaning? ie: when the obj_Terminate event fires, is it cleanijng up any objects that it might be holding?

- gaffa

For example -
Unless you're at sp5 in VB 6.0 the MSChart control leaks memory like a sieve.

The answer depends on what object you're referencing, not that you personally are writing poor code.

:)

I guess I have two comments. First, when you set an object to nothing, memory and system resources are not immediately released. The reason is that VB does a lot of garbage collection that you, the programmer, do not see, and sometimes it just takes VB a while to clean up the object resources. Second, setting an object to nothing doesn't release all system resources until the variable falls out of scope. So if your object is a global variable, even after it has been set to nothing, the variable will still retain some resources.

Hope this helps.