Re: handling properties of multiple objects

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 08:09 +0530, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> Now we need a way to have as few DiaObjects in the private copy as
> possible. This means that the private copies should be made when the
> Property instances are created. But the Property instances are created
> by a internal functions that never sees the relevant DiaObjects. But
> the DiaObjects are available when the PropDescriptions are listed
> together.

A perhaps stupid question, since I haven't looked at the code for a
while: Would it not be a lot cleaner to have no private copies, but just
pointers to the real objects?  I can see all manner of problems with
having extra copies of things floating around.

-Lars