Question

Is there any kind of automatic pointer, similar to auto_ptr or scoped_ptr, for Symbian?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no. If you mean native Symbian C++, of course. I can only propose you to use template <class T> class TAutoClose, which can be used to call Close() method on different R-classes, when TAutoClose instance goes out of scope. For example,

RFile myFile;
TAutoClose<RFile> iFile;
iFile.iObj = myFile;

myFile::Close() will be called when iFile goes out of scope.

Hope this helps. Symbian development is not the easy. 🙂