[vtkusers] Dispose to vtk objects

[Benjamin Jähn]

Hi all,

is there somewhere a documentation about such issues? I have read in the 
newsgroup somewhere that it is necessary to hold a managed reference to 
each object one pass to the "native" vtk as long as it is used.

Regards,
Benjamin

Am 11.06.2013 16:45, schrieb David Cole:
>> I saw in some example that after exit dispose of
>> all the objects is performed.
>> Is this a must? I'm talking about Activiz wrapping,
>> isn't it performed automatically?
>
>
> Hi Max,
>
> You are correct, it is performed automatically whenever the .NET 
> garbage collector runs.
>
> However, some sequences of code produce networks of connected objects 
> which must be broken down, disconnected and destroyed in a 
> deterministic manner. Many times, objects that are related to the 
> RenderWindow in some way should be properly removed from the 
> RenderWindow before the window is closed or destroyed.
>
> It's moderately frequent in writing VTK code that you'll need to 
> actively manage some of the objects with "early" calls to Dispose. As 
> soon as you do
> call Dispose, though, you should immediately set the associated 
> variable to null as well, to remove the .NET reference hold on it.
>
> ( Speaking of Activiz, have you seen the Kickstarter campaign to 
> update it? It only has minutes left to go... 
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dlrdave/activiz-net-installers-featuring-vtk-510 
> )
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
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