Re: The use of RefPtr

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 14:39 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On 03/07/2009 02:30 PM, Eddie Carle wrote:
> > My question is: is the
> > heavy reliance on dynamic allocation common in the gui toolkit world?
> 
> Qt and QObject heavily relies on dynamic allocation too (see: 
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/object.html ). And Qt is designed for C++, 
> while Gtkmm is constrained somewhat to Gtk+ design.

And both Qt and gtkmm are used in real-world consumer devices.

It's common for all kinds of toolkits. As soon as a problem gets
complicated enough then you need dynamic allocation to handle the
lifetime issues.

I've used a (bad and proprietary) embedded UI toolkit that tried to do
mostly static allocation but this restriction stopped it from evolving
into a good toolkit.

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