[vtk-developers] vtkLiteObject?

David Gobbi dgobbi at irus.rri.ca
Tue Apr 9 16:28:27 EDT 2002


Oops, looks like I read things the wrong way around...
the new class will 'have' reference counting.   In
that case, vtkGCObject or vtkReferenceCountedObject.
I still don't like 'Lite', "Super' or 'Abstract' because
they aren't specific enough.

 - David


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, David Gobbi wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> The non-reference counted versions of objects often
> contain the word 'Simple', e.g. vtkSimpleMutexLock,
> so vtkSimpleObject is my preference.
>
> For some reason 'vtkLiteObject' turns my stomach.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  - David
>
> On 9 Apr 2002, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I think we need to take reference counting out of vtkObject and
> > put it in a common superclass.
> > This is the case because vtkCommand and vtkContainer are not
> > subclasses vtkObject, so they do have to implement their own
> > reference counting scheme. Please let me know what you think
> > the name of the common superclass should be?
> >
> > vtkLiteObject?
> > vtkSuperObject?
> > vtkAbstractObject?
> >
> > 			Andy
>
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