Playing with 'new' identifier and pointers.

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PrismaticRealms
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Ah, so it is. Thanks Robert.

And ziggy, using pointers, therefore, is not the proper way to store a set of objects since it does not increase the reference count. Right?

I am trying to figure out the "correct" way to store a list of object references (in a 2 dimensional array). The TList doesn't serve my needs as well as I would like. And I cannot create an array of variables of type 'T'. So, this is what I have come up with now. Any thoughts?

		For y = 1 To down
			For x = 1 To across
				tempTile = TTile.Create(0, 0, width, height)

				' Add reference to tileArray.
				tileArray[x-1,y-1] = tempTile
			Next
		Next


This seems to work OK in my tests. Does anyone see any problem with this approach. Does anyone see a more "correct" approach?

Thanks for any/everyone's help.