Memory leak in panel example?

[riv-tnoble]

Hello,

Thanks for the tutorials! They've been super helpful for me trying to learn how to create a plugin. I've noticed some code in the panel tutorial which I believe may be causing a memory leak e.g. here. The class has no destructor, so it seems like we're dynamically allocating memory and never freeing it.

It's been a while since I've used Qt, so unsure if it would be handling the memory management under the hood? Figured it'd be a good opportunity to learn either way 😄

[5730289021-NN]

According to Panel Plugin Tututorial
and my understanding, 'this' that passed as an argument will cause the QTimer to be deleted automatically after the QObject destructor is called.