A probably simple question about VTK smart pointers

[Hendrik Belitz]

Hello fellow vtk users,

I have a probably simple question about VTK smart pointers. I want to use a
VTK class (externalDataPtr or Type vtkImageData* in my case ), generated by a
VTK pipeline, in a class which doesn't inherit vtkBaseObject. To make sure
that the vtkImageData* isn't deleted by the pipeline, I need to manually
increase the reference count by calling

externalDataPtr->Register( NULL );

and decrease the reference count afterwards by

externalDataPtr->Delete();

I'm wondering if giving a NULL pointer to the Register() function is correct
(I assume that I need to give a pointer to the object which references my
imageData here, which I can't, since my class does not inherit
vtkBaseObject), since this parameter isn't documented well in the online
documentation. Could anybody give me clue on what this parameter is actually
good for?

Regards
 Hendrik

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Dipl.-Inform. Hendrik Belitz
Central Institute of Electronics / Zentralinstitut für Elektronik
 Multimodal image processing workgroup / AG Multimodale Bildverarbeitung
Research Center Juelich / Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
D-52428 Jülich, Germany
Tel.: (++49)2461 61 8701 Fax: (++49)2461 61 3990
email: [hidden email]
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[David Cole]

I've been told that "The argument to Register/UnRegister is only used
when printing debugging messages so that the human knows what is
referencing the object."

You should balance your call to Register with a call to UnRegister (as
opposed to Delete), also passing NULL as the parameter. In this case,
it's probably six of one, half-dozen of the other, but Reg/UnReg are
there to balance each other, so you should use them that way.

Hope this helps,
David

Hendrik Belitz wrote:

>Hello fellow vtk users,
>
>I have a probably simple question about VTK smart pointers. I want to use a
>VTK class (externalDataPtr or Type vtkImageData* in my case ), generated by a
>VTK pipeline, in a class which doesn't inherit vtkBaseObject. To make sure
>that the vtkImageData* isn't deleted by the pipeline, I need to manually
>increase the reference count by calling
>
>externalDataPtr->Register( NULL );
>
>and decrease the reference count afterwards by
>
>externalDataPtr->Delete();
>
>I'm wondering if giving a NULL pointer to the Register() function is correct
>(I assume that I need to give a pointer to the object which references my
>imageData here, which I can't, since my class does not inherit
>vtkBaseObject), since this parameter isn't documented well in the online
>documentation. Could anybody give me clue on what this parameter is actually
>good for?
>
>Regards
> Hendrik
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dipl.-Inform. Hendrik Belitz
>Central Institute of Electronics / Zentralinstitut für Elektronik
> Multimodal image processing workgroup / AG Multimodale Bildverarbeitung
>Research Center Juelich / Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
>D-52428 Jülich, Germany
>Tel.: (++49)2461 61 8701 Fax: (++49)2461 61 3990
>email: [hidden email]
>ggp-key available via http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de
>  
>
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