[Bf-committers] M Key in 2.8

[Knapp]

So it will only deallocate the memory when you call it the next time but
you never need to do this when you destroy the object? Am I understanding
this correctly?
If so, then why not add a function to UItemMenuF that releases the memory?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > BTW why would you leek memory by design? Have not written the garbage
> collection yet or what?
>
> I explain it here: https://developer.blender.org/rBf167226b793e
>
> But basically in order to do multi-level (i.e., nested) menus with the
> current code base I had to resort to uiItemMenuF.
>
> This function takes a callback that it is used to build the menus
> on-the-fly.
> In order to build the menus I need valid data of which collections to show,
> so they need to be pre-allocated.
> However the operator that creates the menus (and allocates the data) exits
> with OPERATOR_INTERFACE. And there is no garbage collection callback
> function called when the menu is destroyed.
>
> I guess I can also free the previously allocated memory in the operator
> exec. This will leave the memory leakage to happen only when the menu is
> called but dismissed.
>
> The leakage is small though, so I'm not super concerned.
>
> --
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>
> 2018-03-29 14:23 GMT-03:00 Pablo Vazquez <venomgfx at gmail.com>:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What is the best link for 2.8 news?
> >
> > Summary:
> > https://www.blender.org/2-8/
> >
> > Blog:
> > https://code.blender.org
> >
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> >
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> > pablovazquez.art
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