[vtkusers] VTK Destructors

[Cory Quammen]

Bikash,

VTK objects are managed by a garbage collector which does all the deleting
for you. To let VTK know you are done with an object, you can call

object->Delete();

If this is the last reference to the object, the garbage collector will
delete it for you. If, however, a reference to the object is held by some
other object, it will not be garbage collected. That's why code like the
following is safe:

vtkSphereSource* source = vtkSphereSource::New()
otherFilter->SetInputConnection( source->GetOutputPort() );
source->Delete();

HTH,
Cory

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Bikash Kanungo <bikash at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm creating vtkHexahedron(s) using the New() public member function. The
> resultant object is pointed by a base vtkCell  pointer. Since the
> destructors of both vtkHexahedron and vtkCell are protected member
> functions, is there a way to de-allocate the memory occupied by the object
> created by New()?
>
> Thanks,
> Bikash
>
> --
> Bikash S. Kanungo
> PhD Student
> Computational Materials Physics Group
> Mechanical Engineering
> University of Michigan
>
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Cory Quammen
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