Dear Paul, First of all, I'd like to thank you for your QSG! It's a great overview of OSG and a nice introduction of the main aspects of the library. I'm looking forward to the update.
I tried the link to code.google.com, but it gave me a permission denied. Do I need to register somewhere first? Bests, Nico Kruithof On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Paul Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI -- As part of my revision to the OSG Quick Start Guide (in progress), > I've modified the current svn head of the example code to use > ref_ptr<>::release(). This technique will be discussed in the upcoming > revision but is not mentioned in the current edition of the book. So I > thought I should discuss it briefly here. > > ref_ptr<>::release() tells the ref_ptr<> variable to stop managing the > memory that it points to. It will decrement the reference count on the > memory but will not delete the memory, not even if its reference count goes > to zero. This makes release() well-suited for returning the address of > Reference memory from functions that allocate that memory. The function can > use a ref_ptr<> locally to store the address of the allocated memory, return > it with release(), and as long as the calling code store the returned > address in another ref_ptr<>, no memory is deleted and no memory leaks. > > The source code can be downloaded from: > http://code.google.com/p/osgqsg/admin > > The current edition of the book can be ordered from www.lulu.com. Just > search for "OpenSceneGraph". > > > Paul Martz > Skew Matrix Software LLC > http://www.skew-matrix.com > +1 303 859 9466 > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
