Other people who know more about this than me may tell me I am wrong, but here is a simple rule of thumb I have used.
If the pointer is going to be saved for later use (i.e. class member, static variable, etc.) then it needs a ref_ptr. If you are just going to create a local variable, add it to another object, then let the local variable go out of scope, you can get away with a raw pointer. But some people use a ref_ptr there too, just to be safe. Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/9/2008 11:05 AM To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org Subject: [osg-users] use of ref_ptr I just started using OSG and have never used ref_ptr's before, though I've read the "A Short Introduction to the Basic Principles of the Open Scene Graph" and belive I understand the concept. But I wonder if you have any advice on the use of ref_ptr's on OSG objects, and If you use them in some standard way. I recon all the objects that inherits from "Referenced" should use ref_ptr for safer memory alloction/deleting, but I guess it's just a subjective choice.
<<winmail.dat>>
_______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
