a text on optimizing C++

[David Leimbach]

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Saturday 25 January 2003 02:27, David Leimbach wrote:
>>>>> ( new QVBoxLayout( ... ) )->setAutoAdd( true );
>>>>
>>>> Looks like a memory leak to me.. . you just constructed something 
>>>> and
>>>> threw out the pointer
>>>
>>> The QVBoxLayout is created as a child of a widget. The widget is
>>> responsible for deleting the layout. So there's no memory leak.
>>
>> So somewhere there is a symbol that has that address so it can call 
>> delete.
>
> Yes, I suggest you read the Qt manual wrt QObject, section child 
> objects.
>
Thanks... I looked it up... neat system!  Allows for more dynamic 
dialogs and forms... pretty cool stuff :)

In case anyone else is interested here is the link that helped explain 
it...
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/objecttrees.html
as well as
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/qobject.html