2016-09-08 20:33 GMT+02:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > On quinta-feira, 8 de setembro de 2016 19:13:44 PDT Elvis Stansvik wrote: >> Hm, okay. Perhaps a dumb question, but what are the consequences >> internal vs external refcounting for me as a user of these classes? >> Reading the docs for both of them, both seem to have a thread-safe >> refcounting mechanism. > > The difference is, quite literally, where the reference counter lives. > > If it's inside the object whose lifetime it controls, then the reference > counter cannot outlive the object itself. That means an internal reference > counting cannot have QWeakPointer. If the reference count lives outside of the > object, then QWeakPointer is possible. > > Also, for the reference counter to live inside the object, the class needs to > have been designed with that in mind.
Ah, of course. Thanks. Elvis > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
