Hi everyone,
I work on a C++ plugin under 3DSMax 8 which has problems with Maxscript’s garbage collector: it raises an error when I load a new file after using the plugin. As long as I don’t load a new file/reset the scene, I can call the plugin whitout errors as much as I want.
The plugin is pretty old (dating from 3DSMax 4 I believe) and has been fixed/patched to work with 3DS 6 and 8 so far, but since I have to add new functionnalities I’d like to get rid of all the problems (along with 3DSMax crashs ;).
To explain why I’m talking about STL: the plugin seems to have a lot of memory leaks and I believe it’s because of a dynamic array class that is using malloc/realloc and placement new (redefinition of new/delete). I suppose it’s this class the main problem: there must be some kind of conflict with the garbage collector (memory deleted twice or something like that). I’d like to replace this class with a traditionnal STL container (which should be safer) but I don’t know if it’s possible/recommended.
Any help/advice is appreciated
Thanks!
Hi,
I regularly use STL classes like vector etc. in my plugins and had no problems so far. Don’t know how they can be ported to 64 bit though…
Best regards,
Dieter