Re: [Vala] How to call a gst_object_ref in vala?

["Juerg Billeter" <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, April 28, 2008 15:43, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Juerg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
>> On Mon, April 28, 2008 12:55, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
>>  > I want to use a gst_bin_remove function [1], but I want the Element
>>  > that is removes not to be freed. For that I need to call
>>  > gst_object_ref before gst_bin_remove (See also [1]). How do I call
>>  > gst_object_ref in vala?
>>
>>  This essentially means that you want to keep a reference to the child
>>  element. So just store it in a local variable or field and Vala will
>>  increment the reference count automatically. It will currently just
>> call
>>  g_object_ref, not gst_object_ref, but that should work fine, we could
>>  change that to gst_object_ref for GstObjects.
>>
> Thanks, are you also planning on providing a function in vala to
> increase ref count. Introducing another variable so you can increase
> the refcount is a bit hacky if you ask me.

Well, the point is that it only makes sense to increase the reference
count if you have a reference to the object (else you leak memory). Why do
you want to increase the reference count just without that, can you
explain the situation?

Juerg