What does releaseComObject() actually do?

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I came across this in the Lucee documentation. Tested it, but it doesn’t
seem to actually do anything, or at least when I created a component,
releaseComObject()ed it, then did a dump it was still around. Is this
supposed to work with components, or other types of com objects?

Thanks!

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It’s used when you create a ‘com’ object.

obj = createobject(‘com’, ‘some.activex.thing.or.whateva’)
obj.dosomething()
releaseComObject(obj)

This is only really relevant on windows, as that’s where you’re likely to
want to use COM objects.On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:28 Jonathan Brookins <@Jonathan_Brookins> wrote:

I came across this in the Lucee documentation. Tested it, but it doesn’t
seem to actually do anything, or at least when I created a component,
releaseComObject()ed it, then did a dump it was still around. Is this
supposed to work with components, or other types of com objects?

Thanks!

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Ah, I was afraid of that. Thanks for the confirmation, Chris.On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 1:39:23 PM UTC-4, Chris Blackwell wrote:

It’s used when you create a ‘com’ object.

obj = createobject(‘com’, ‘some.activex.thing.or.whateva’)
obj.dosomething()
releaseComObject(obj)

This is only really relevant on windows, as that’s where you’re likely to
want to use COM objects.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:28 Jonathan Brookins <jon.br...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:

I came across this in the Lucee documentation. Tested it, but it doesn’t
seem to actually do anything, or at least when I created a component,
releaseComObject()ed it, then did a dump it was still around. Is this
supposed to work with components, or other types of com objects?

Thanks!

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