I need to store a temporary list of records and was thinking that a TList
would be a good way to do this? However I am unsure how to do this with a TList
and was wondering if this is the best was and also if anyone has any examples of how to do this?
The easiest way is to create your own descendant of TList
. Here's a quick sample console app to demonstrate:
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
SysUtils, Classes;
type
PMyRec=^TMyRec;
TMyRec=record
Value: Integer;
AByte: Byte;
end;
TMyRecList=class(TList)
private
function Get(Index: Integer): PMyRec;
public
destructor Destroy; override;
function Add(Value: PMyRec): Integer;
property Items[Index: Integer]: PMyRec read Get; default;
end;
{ TMyRecList }
function TMyRecList.Add(Value: PMyRec): Integer;
begin
Result := inherited Add(Value);
end;
destructor TMyRecList.Destroy;
var
i: Integer;
begin
for i := 0 to Count - 1 do
FreeMem(Items[i]);
inherited;
end;
function TMyRecList.Get(Index: Integer): PMyRec;
begin
Result := PMyRec(inherited Get(Index));
end;
var
MyRecList: TMyRecList;
MyRec: PMyRec;
tmp: Integer;
begin
MyRecList := TMyRecList.Create;
for tmp := 0 to 9 do
begin
GetMem(MyRec, SizeOf(TMyRec));
MyRec.Value := tmp;
MyRec.AByte := Byte(tmp);
MyRecList.Add(MyRec);
end;
for tmp := 0 to MyRecList.Count - 1 do
Writeln('Value: ', MyRecList[tmp].Value, ' AByte: ', MyRecList[tmp].AByte);
WriteLn(' Press Enter to free the list');
ReadLn;
MyRecList.Free;
end.
This eliminates a couple of things:
As Remy and Warren both said, it's a little more work because you have to allocate the memory when you add new records.