Declare a varialbe

[aelmetwaly]

What is the proper way to declar a variable in irrlicht engine
is it on the stack or on the heap
lich

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IAnimateMesh* mesh = 0;

does the engine deletes it for me?

[sirshane]

For the most part I believe the engine will delete stuff for you. Meshes, textures and nodes are reference counted by the engine. When a node is no longer being used it gets automatically deleted. Optionally, you can have a mesh, node etc. delete it's self by calling the drop( ) method of it's IUnknown interface. This is generally a bad idea though, since you never know if it's being referenced still or not.

Just let the engine handle the memory.

[[dx/x]=HUNT3R]

What is the proper way to declar a variable in irrlicht engine
is it on the stack or on the heap
lich

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IAnimateMesh* mesh = 0;

does the engine deletes it for me?

Thats how I declare mine, and sirshane said let the engine delete stuff for you except for a few select types that can be dropped when you're done. Check out the API and it will tell you if it should be dropped or not.

[Saalen]

As stated in the API docs, you have to drop all objects you got from a create-Method. Pointers which are results of add-Methods do not need to be dropped.