Quote Originally Posted by "cairnswm
The only time you need PTypes in delphi is if you are using records and want to put them into something like an object list.
yeah, or linked lists, or if one want to access memory address directly, if I'm not wrong, the purpose of OOP is to relieve the programmer of using pointers; however; I see myself using them quite a lot..but in a strict sense they should be avoided.