Re: [Swig-user] shared_ptr and directors.

[Andrea <mar...@go...>]

On 21/10/09 12:50, Andrea wrote:
> On 21/10/09 11:18, Andrea wrote:
> I've found a workaround.
> Basically what is missing is a function like (in Java)
>
> BPtr transformB(B b);
>
> which can be easily added to the c++ file as
>
> boost::shared_ptr<B>  transformB(B * b)
> {
>     return boost::shared_ptr<B>(b);
> }
>

I am not too sure any more about that.
Is the memory ownership ok?

> then I can write
>
> class MyA {
>        public BPtr b() {
>          return transformB(new MyB());
>        }
> }
>
> my question then is: why the shared_ptr<B>  does not expose a constructor that takes a B
> (i.e. a B * in C++)?