[vtk-developers] Shared ownership of an array of pointers

[Philippe Pébay]

Just an idea: couldn't a vtkVoidArray be used (or abused) as container of
raw pointers, that would be appropriately downcasted internally to the
concrete type to which they are supposed to point? For instance, instead of
having a
 vtkMyInternalObject** obj
instance variable, couldn't I use a
 vtkVoidArray* obj
instead, where each entry in obj would be the raw pointer to a
vtkSmartPointer<vtkMyInternalObject>?

Thanks
Philippe

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Philippe Pébay
<philippe.pebay at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hello Kyle
>
> Yes, I would want to avoid a dependency on Boost. But this is basically
> what I am tried to reproduce (the Boost shared array of pointers).
>
> Thanks
> P
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Kyle Lutz <kyle.lutz at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Would using boost suffice? Or do you want a solution using just VTK?
>>
>> -kyle
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Philippe Pébay
>> <philippe.pebay at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I need to keep track of shared ownership of an array of pointers. Can
>> > someone point me towards an example of code that already does this? This
>> > should amount to a small helper class that contains the array of
>> pointers
>> > along with a reference count.
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> > Philippe
>> >
>> >
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Philippe Pébay, PhD
Director of Visualization and High Performance Computing /
Directeur de la Visualisation et du Calcul Haute Performance
Kitware SAS
26 rue Louis Guérin, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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