[vtk-developers] vtkReferenceCount (Was vtkLiteObject)

[Bill Lorensen]

vtkObjectBase or vtkBaseObject


At 04:05 PM 4/22/02 -0400, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I will retry this e-mail thread...
>For unifying some of the functionality of VTK (which is my goal for a
>while already), I believe we need to take reference counting out of
>vtkObject and put it in the superclass. This superclass will then be
>also superclass of vtkCommand and vtkContainer, providing the same
>functionality for "all" vtk classes. 
>
>Also, I would like to add Debug and GetClassName to the superclass, so
>that vtkContainer and vtkCommand classes will be able to use vtkSetGet
>macros.
>
>So, ...
>
>Let us start this all over again. Last time we kind of agreed that it is
>a good idea and we started working on the name. I would like the
>developers to express their opinion on the appropriate name.
>
>Current candidates:
>
>vtkBaseObject
>vtkBasicObject
>vtkReferenceCount
>vtkReferenceCounted
>
>Please suggest something quickly and I will do the work in the next
>couple of days.
>
>                                Andy Cedilnik
>
>
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