destroy object

[neversleep]

Hi

 

Is it possible for an object to destroy itself?

 

In the constructor in my class i have a method call that builds the object. But if anything goes wrong here I don't want the object to be created. How do I acomplish that?

[divil]

You can't, in the constructor. If there is a chance the object creation might fail, use a static public function to instantiate the class and make the constructor private, like the Graphics class. You can then return null (Nothing in VB) if it fails.

[neversleep]

Thanks divil, nice solution...did it in another way though. If anyone's interested;

 

If the object doesn't succed in the creation it throws an exception

 

try

myObject obj = new object()

'creation ok

catch

'no object was created

 

end try