Re: [Boost-users] [smart_ptr] Conflict with Maya?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-17 13:41:37

Paul Giaccone wrote:

> 1. The creator function, required by Maya. Note the absence of a smart
> pointer. I tried wrapping this in a shared_ptr and returning .get()
> but this caused a crash, if I remember rightly.
>
> void* MyNode::creator(void)
> {
>    return new MyNode();
> }

This is, I think, exactly as it should be. Maya expects to take ownership of 
the returned pointer and will delete it when it decides that it's no longer 
needed. But I'm not an expert on that; you probably need to ask in a Maya 
SDK forum to be sure.