[cairo] cairomm RefPtr

[Bertram Felgenhauer]

Larry Lewis wrote:
> Is there a specific reason why cairomm's RefPtr implementation
> (along with glibmm) does not provide the T_CppObject& operator*()
> and T_CppObject* get() methods?  Both reference-counting pointer
> implementations I use on a regular basis (boost::shared_ptr and
> Poco::SharedPtr) provide this functionality, which is extremely
> useful for passing the object by reference or directly accessing
> the raw pointer.  It's unfortunate to have to resort to the ugly
> operator->() syntax to access the pointer.

You can get the pointer with  ref->cobj(). (Cairo::Context and
Cairo::Surface provide this method for a reason.)

As for T_CppObject& operator*(), that operator isn't all that useful
for glib style, opaque C objects.

HTH,

Bertram