Hi Fred Jan -
normally objects simply allow Pd to free inlets/outlets for them - the only exeption is the "canvas" object whichcan add or delete them dynamically. There is then a lot of other stuff that has to be carefully taken care of (redrawing, etc).
cheers Miller
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:43:24PM +0100, Fred Jan Kraan wrote:
Hi Devs,
According to the Externals-HOWTO it is required to free the created inlets and outlets. This makes sense as Pd allocates memory for them and frees it on calling inlet_free() and outlet_free(). But the practice is not very common, and the (recent) pd_free also attempts to free them. It does this after checking there is a *_free() method and calling it.
Is there a good reason to free the in- and out-lets from the object *_free() method anyhow? After all, it is extra code, that could contain errors too?
Greetings,
Fred Jan
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