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Freeing an oleobject


How do you  free up an oleobject at the end of a program. This object was created with createoleobject and it is using a varaiant.


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var
  objVar: Variant;
...
  objVar := Unassigned;
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Kumao,

Is that all you have to do.

I did objVar := Unassigned; and I don't see the memory being freed.
Here is may test code for Excel Application.

unit Unit1;

interface

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs, StdCtrls;

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    Button1: TButton;
    Button2: TButton;
    procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
    procedure Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
  private
    { Private 宣言 }
    objVar: Variant; //
  public
    { Public 宣言 }
  end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

implementation

uses ComObj;

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  objVar := CreateOleObject('Excel.Application');
  objVar.WorkBooks.Open('C:\test.xls');
  objVar.Visible := True;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  objVar.Quit;
  objVar := Unassigned;
end;
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Thanks for your help so far.

The ole object that I'm using doesn't have something equivalent to "objVar.Quit;"   that is my concern.

Because you're using late binding here, you won't have any interface to interact with. A variant does not have the .Quit method on it. What ends up happening is the program attempts to find a method called 'Quit' in the created interface. Once found, it is called. You will need to know exactly how to interact with this object because you won't find the error until you run the application.
The application will compile this way.
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I guess that I'm back to my previous question.

Is objVar := Unassigned; all you have to do to free up memory etc..

I did objVar := Unassigned; and I don't see the memory being freed.
 
 
objVar := Unassigned will free the memory.
It may not be immediate though. It depends on when the COM memory manager gets around to cleaning up the memory. There is an API you can call to tell the COM subsystem to clean up any libraries without reference called CoFreeUnusedLibraries defined in the ActiveX unit. Another reason the memory wouldn't be freed is if the COM object you have has circular referenced interfaces. This would stop the object from being destroyed even after it goes out of scope.

Hope this helps,
Rob
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Just one last thing so I can understand this.

I understand objVar := Unassigned.

In my app Iave a need to access a com object multiple times, about 10 times an hour, while the app is running. The app can possibly be running for 12 to 24 hours at a time.

I would like to do a createoleobject once at the begining and leave it for the lenght of the application. At the close of the app I would do I would like to do objVar := Unassigned.

Will this wok? Can I leave a com object active for a long time period. Would it cause memory leaks.

And just one more question. Can I use a check on objVar := Unassigned to tell me if the createoleobject has already taken place?

Thanks for your help.
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