DelphiBasics New Procedure Create a new pointer type variable System unit

1  procedure New(var VariablePointer Pointer-Type); 2  procedure New (var ObjectPointer Object-Pointer; Constructor;

Description The New procedure comes in two flavours.   The older version is an obsolete method of creating objects (you should now call the class constructor instead).   The first version allocates storage for a pointer type variable VariablePointer.   New is used when the storage is requirement is fixed in size. Use GetMem to dictate the exact storage size allocated. Related commands Dispose Dispose of storage used by a pointer type variable FreeMem Free memory storage used by a variable GetMem Get a specified number of storage bytes ReallocMem Reallocate an existing block of storage  Download this web site as a Windows program.

Example code : Allocate memory for a record, and assign to it type   TCustomer = Record     name : string[20];     age  : Byte;   end; var   custRecPtr : ^TCustomer; begin   // Create a customer record using 'New'   New(custRecptr);   // Assign values to it   custRecPtr.name := 'Her indoors';   custRecPtr.age  := 55;   // Now display these values   ShowMessageFmt('%s is %d',[custRecPtr.name, custRecPtr.age]);   // Now dispose of this allocated record   Dispose(custRecPtr); end; Show full unit code   Her indoors is 55

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