On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:51:27PM +0100, Dirk Gregorius wrote:

Thanks for your help and sorry for not looking carefully at the documentation:

I tried the following for a Windows device context:

The creation function is: HDC GetDC( HWND) The deletion function is: int ReleaseDC( HWND, HDC );

// Code like in the documentation... typedef shared_ptr<void> handle; handle make_dc( HWND hWnd ) { // The release function takes two arguments, so I tried an adapter functor...unfortunately it does not work handle( GetDC( hWnd ), bind1( ReleaseDC, hWnd ) ); }

Should that be bind, not bind1 ? It's not hard to write your own deleter if you can't do it with a binder: struct DCReleaser { DCReleaser(HWND hwnd) : hwnd(hwnd) {} void operator()(void* p) { ReleaseDC( hwnd, (HDC)p ); } HWND hwnd; }; handle make_dc( HWND hWnd ) { return handle( GetDC( hWnd ), DCReleaser(hWnd) ); } but ...

My problem is to bind the window handle to the custom delete function. My compilter spits aout a lot of error messages here. Can I use boost::bind here or boost::function?

I think bind(ReleaseDC, hWnd, _1) should work.

BTW: How does shared_ptr call the custom delete function? For a COM object it should call in the D'tor:

raw_ptr->Release();

While in my case it should call ( what is the usual way in the C++ standard IIRC ):

Release( raw_ptr );

Does the shard_ptr interface figures this out in some clever way and manage this internally?

The custom deleter's function operator is called with the managed pointer as its argument, e.g. for a deleter d and pointer p: d(p) jon -- "Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear; and behold, do ye now complain that ye lack freedom." - Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst "Epistle to the Paranoids," HBT