What happens if you instantiate a Db entity but don't append it?

[kwollaston]

I have written a function that creates a Db.MText entity in order to determine the width of text so I can scale the table's column size based on the longest value. It does work but I'm wondering if there are any side effects.

If I don't run model.appendAcDBEntity(mtext), what happens? Does this get picked up by GC? Is it still hidden in the database? I don't want the text to appear in the model but also don't want to fill up the database without knowing.

[CEXT-Dan]

Garbage collected.

Basically, if the object has an objectid, it’s closed, else deleted

PyRx/PyRxCore/PyRxObject.cpp

Lines 58 to 72 in 751da54

	// TODO: this could be a little cleaner,
	// consider making a PyDisposableObject
	inline void operator()(AcRxObject* p) const
	{
	if (p == nullptr)
	return;
	if (m_forceKeepAlive)
	return;
	else if (isDbroThenClose(p))
	return;
	else if (!m_autoDelete)
	return;
	else
	delete p;
	}

There’s a couple of rare conditions when the object is handed over to AutoCAD