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should I dispose of a font when... [message #448028]

Mon, 27 December 2004 06:45

Liam Morley

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So far, I've been assigning a value to a font and disposing of the font
when I dispose of the parent object. However, I'm about to change the
font while the object is still around- should I dispose of the old font
before reassigning the new font?

For example, in the following basic class structure, should I call
"font.dispose()" in the changeFont method?

MyClass {
private Font font;
public MyClass() {
Font font = ...;
}

public void changeFont(FontData fd) {
// should I call font.dispose() here?
font = new Font(null, fd);
}

protected void widgetDisposed() {
// called from dispose listener
font.dispose();
}
}

Many thanks.

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Liam Morley
Computer Science Undergraduate
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Re: should I dispose of a font when... [message #448147 is a reply to message #448028]

Mon, 03 January 2005 18:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com

Yes you should. You created the font so you need to dispose of it when
no longer needed.

Liam Morley wrote:
> So far, I've been assigning a value to a font and disposing of the font
> when I dispose of the parent object. However, I'm about to change the
> font while the object is still around- should I dispose of the old font
> before reassigning the new font?
>
> For example, in the following basic class structure, should I call
> "font.dispose()" in the changeFont method?
>
> MyClass {
> private Font font;
> public MyClass() {
> Font font = ...;
> }
>
> public void changeFont(FontData fd) {
> // should I call font.dispose() here?
> font = new Font(null, fd);
> }
>
> protected void widgetDisposed() {
> // called from dispose listener
> font.dispose();
> }
> }
>
> Many thanks.
>

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp

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