[Insight-users] How to copy ITK objects?

Luis Ibanez luis.ibanez at kitware.com
Tue Aug 9 15:55:02 EDT 2005


Hi Tobias,

It is because, most of the time, what you actually want is a
copy of the SmartPointer, and to have two or more Smart Pointers
pointing to the same object.

Note that some classes have a "Copy" or "Clone" method defined.


    Regards Luis,



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Tobias Heimann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Why is it that most ITK objects don't have usable assignment operators?
> In the classes that I'm interested in (e.g. itk::Mesh), the assignment 
> operator is declared private and "purposely not implemented"... I 
> suspect there is a method behind that, but I don't get it.
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tobias
> 



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