[fpc-pascal] Re: Weird interface behavior

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, leledumbo wrote:

>
>> What's wrong with using an abstract class ?
>
> Nothing, that's just the way I got taught and I couldn't find a way to say
> it was wrong until today (I never used interface previously).
>
>> By choosing an interface, you implicitly get the reference counting on top
>> of things, and this seems to be what causes your error ?
>
> Yeah, I thought so. There's something different about Object Pascal's
> interface (I hope Delphi does the same) and Java (the one I learned in
> college).

You can force more 'Java Compatible' behaviour, I suspect, by choosing CORBA interfaces.

Please try adding

{$INTERFACES CORBA}

Before your interface declaration. It should then skip the reference counting.
So if the problem then goes away, you know that the ref. counting was the problem.

Michael.