Re: CListCtrl, custom item data and allocation policy
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:06:26 +0100, Mosfet <anonymous@free.fr> wrote:
Hi,
When using a CListCtrl you can associate some custom data via the
SetItemData method.
The problem is it takes a DWORD argumentr that can reference a value or
a pointer to an allocated structure.
When destroying this CListCtrl is there any ways of determining if it
needs to be deallocated.
For instance, let's say I have a CMyListCtrl inheriting from CListCtrl
used in two different dialogs.
In one dialog I call SetItemData passing a DWORD value representing a
numeric value and in the second one I pass a pointer to an allocated
chunk of memory.
In the destructor how doI know if I need to call delete ?
That's up to you. Your CMyListCtrl could maintain a flag that indicates
whether or not it should delete item data for items that are removed from
the list. You could initialize this flag with a ctor parameter. Be careful
to account for all the ways items can be removed. If there is a function
"DeleteItem" and a corresponding Windows message, handle the Windows
message instead of overriding the function, which may not even be virtual
(and thus can't be overridden).
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