Hello, Perhaps nobody is aware of (perpahs some are) that this simple use case has introduced another intersting and, probably, very useful scenario in which the Signals lib could be benificial. That is: Slot With Status. Have a look at this example: struct Slot { int sum; Slot() : sum(0) {} Slot(int i) : sum(i) {} int operator()(int i) { return sum += i; } }; void test_signals() { typedef boost::signal Signal; Signal sig; boost::shared_ptr<Slot> a( new Slot() ); boost::shared_ptr<Slot> b = a; sig.connect(boost::bind( &Slot::operator(), a, _1)); sig.connect(boost::bind( &Slot::operator(), b, _1)); sig.connect(boost::bind( &Slot::operator(), boost::shared_ptr<Slot>(a), _1)); std::cout << "\na.use_count() = " << a.use_count(); std::cout << "\nsum = " << sig(1) << std::endl; } The result is: a.use_count() = 5 sum = 3 the reason of use_count of the shared_ptr being 5 rather than 3 is the result of the copy semantics of the connect function. Hope this information is interesting. B/Rgds Max ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Mori Hess To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr and signals Date: 2009-1-1 01:30:05 On Tue Dec 30 12:47 , Steven Watanabe sent:

James C. Sutherland wrote:

...

Is it possible to use a shared_ptr object in a signal?

I want something like

struct A{ ... void operator()(){ ... } ... }; typedef boost::signal Signal; Signal mySignal;

boost::shared_ptr a( new A() ); mySignal.connect(a);

Wrap the shared_ptr in a function object

struct deref_call { void operator()() const { (*f)(); } boost::shared_ptr f; };

bind can also be used to do this, since shared_ptr can be passed as the "this" argument when binding member functions: boost::shared_ptr a( new A() ); mySignal.connect(boost::bind(&A::operator(), a)); ------------------------------------------------------------------- 新浪空间——与朋友开心分享网络新生活！(http://space.sina.com.cn/ )