Clear a TList or a TObjectList

Question

I\'m a bit puzzled of what to use for storing objects in a list. Until now I have used TList and freed each item in a loop. Then I discovered TObjectList

Answer 1

It's not the same TList.Clear only frees the memory allocated to store the pointers, not objects they are pointing to. To avoid memory leaks you need to free the memory yourself - as you have been doing - or use TObjectList.

To answer the second question, TObjectList doesn't support storing records. You need to use TList (or something else) in that case.