Sorry, I pasted the admin link by accident. Here is the actual link: http://code.google.com/p/osgqsg/
Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC http://www.skew-matrix.com +1 303 859 9466 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nico Kruithof Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:21 AM To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: Re: [osg-users] ref_ptr<>::release() and Quick Start Guide 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 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org

