When to use delete Topic is solved

[sethjackson]

I want to know if it is ok to use delete on a wxGLCanvas object.
In my MainFrame destructor I have this.

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MainFrame::~MainFrame()
{
    delete g_pGLCanvas;
}

wher g_pGlCanvas is a pointer to a wxGLCanvas object.

Is this OK to do?

[eco]

You should use Destroy() (g_pGLCanvas->Destroy()) for objects derived from wxEvtHandler (it prevents lingering events from being processed using a non-existent event handler). Also, since your wxGLCanvas is most certainly a child of another wxWindow or wxWindow derived class you can safely not do anything. wxWidgets will automatically delete it as it deletes the parent window.

[priyank_bolia]

ya, but don't forgot to pass (this) parent handle to the child controls and you can safely forgot them or call Destroy on child controls derived from wxEvtHandler. For classes that don't take the parent handle, you have to call delete for objects created with new.

[sethjackson]

So I don't have to do anything at all. Thanks much.