Re: Problem with "this" and shared_ptr

Hi Darin, Stephen, Peter,

Yes. There is a relatively new feature in the latest versions of shared_ptr, shared_from_this.

The way you use it in Boost 1.29.0 is to the class you want to store a pointer to inherit from boost::counted_base. You can use multiple inheritance if you already have another base class. Then you can use shared_from_this to turn a raw pointer to this class into a shared_ptr. I expect this feature is going to be in future versions of shared_ptr, but the name of the class you have to inherit from may change. it works perfect. Thank you!

bye Michael