A Warning on Dynamically Instantiating Delphi components

Delphi at Run-Time :: If you want to dynamically instantiate a Delphi object (control, component) and explicitly free it sometime later, always pass nil as the owner. Failure to do so can introduce unnecessary risk, as well as performance and code maintenance problems.

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• Creating Components Dynamically (at Run-Time)
• Managing Component Arrays in Delphi
• Understanding and Preventing Memory Leaks in Delphi Applications