Re: [Vala] Some basic questions

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 12:52 +0200, Juerg Billeter wrote:
> On Sat, March 22, 2008 20:06, Mikael Hermansson wrote:
> > 1:
> >
> > If I want a copy of Gtk.TreePath I have to use weak but the problem is
> > howto free it after use?
>
> That's a bug in the bindings, copy should obviously not return a weak
> reference.

Fixed now.

> > 2:
> >
> > Another problem probadly a binding bug:
> >
> > weak List selection = tw.get_selection().get_selected_rows();
> >
> > Because of the weak ref vala will not free the object but howto free it
> > manually then??
>
> Same here, bug in the bindings.

Fixed now.

> > 3: Also the model parameter should not be unrefed
> >
> > TreeModel model;
> > selections=treeviewPlaylist.get_selection().get_selected_rows( out
> > model);
> > if (selection)
> >   return ;
>
> That's a bug in the compiler, the bindings correctly state that it's a out
> weak parameter, i.e. it shouldn't be unref'd.

Not fixed yet, it should be possible to work around this issue by
declaring the local model variable as "weak TreeModel model;". Please
open a bug report about the issue.

Jürg