Re: best way to use multiple windows

[John Taber <jtaber johntaber net>]

Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> John Taber wrote:
>
> > Well, it is heap vs stack - I am not sure which is really better for
> > "normal" gui applications.  But I have always created my dialogs as
> > pointers - it just seems more traditional c++.
>
> Isn't that dangerous if exceptions are thrown? Why not let the compiler

Yeah, I think c++ in general is pretty dangerous:)  And I guess that's 
why there is java and C#.  I'm always open to better ideas.  Whatever is 
the fastest, simplest, cleanest.  We've always called all our widgets 
with pointers as well, since we've never really taken the time to figure 
out what the memory hit is, especially if there are a few layers of 
dialogs open as per the original question in the thread and not sure 
what happens if one of the widgets is a 500 mb image.  But your idea of 
the dialog container on stack but widgets on heap would be efficient if 
it doesn't cause other problems - and I guess you're saying gtkmm takes 
care of that.
John



> do the dirty work? Remember that just the gtkmm instances like a
> Gtk::Dialog are created on the stack, but they create their underlaying
> GTK+ objects on the heap. This method seems to be the C++ way for me.
>
> But if you like using dynamically allocated memory here, go on. I just
> wanted to add another alternative how to display popup dialogs :)
>
>  - Armin
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