Working on the UI my current short-term target is to open a file. The results of this will not be ostensibly much different from the test bed application which could open, save and publish a file except that it involves putting in the beginnings of a skeleton for the UI of the final app. The skeleton is a mix of Cocoa C++. There are C++ subclasses of existing Cello objects and Cocoa wrappers.
I don't like checking things into the project that don't compile and in some sense work. I view checkins as a progression forward so working on my next checkin I have been dealing with owner counting problems.
Cello predates boost, or at least does not have any boost in it and owner counting is done through inheritance from custom classes and hand-rolled templates. This works fine but there have been some wrinkles with classes that use the 'interface' extension (which is I believe a Microsoft extension). I have replaced interfaces with straight subclasses (for the moment at lease) and in this there have been uninteresting wrinkles with the owner counting mechanisms. Just uninteresting stuff that you need #ifdef your way through.
