The following material describes the process of creating and freeing control-frame widgets. This is automatically done by the AppBuilder, but, like any other dynamic widget, you can delete a control-frame some time after you create it.
You can delete a control-frame using two techniques:
Associate the control-frame with a widget pool in the CREATE statement. When you delete the widget pool, ABL deletes the control-frame widget and also releases its control-frame COM object. This is the default technique used by the AppBuilder. (The AppBuilder uses the default unnamed widget pool that is deleted when the .w ends.)
Explicitly delete the control-frame using the DELETE WIDGET statement. This statement deletes the control-frame widget and also releases the control-frame COM object.
Associate the control-frame with a widget pool in the CREATE statement. When you delete the widget pool, ABL deletes the control-frame widget and also releases its control-frame COM object. This is the default technique used by the AppBuilder. (The AppBuilder uses the default unnamed widget pool that is deleted when the .w ends.)
