[Glade-users] [glade-users] Using a global variablefor GladeXML object?

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:03 -0600, Alexey Kurochkin wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I believe the GladeXML object is still there, even
> if you aren't referencing it no more, until the last widget created by
> it is destroyed; and you can get the reference back with
> glade_get_widget_tree function. Am I wrong?

Yes. glade_xml_new() returns an object that belongs to the caller - 
it creates a gtk+ heirarchy on behalf of the user. It does not keep
references to the widgets it created (it catches the "destroy" signal
to ensure its name_hash stays valid) furthermore, after freeing your
GladeXML object it is safe to call glade_get_widget_tree() on a widget
built by the freed GladeXML - glade_get_widget_tree() will return NULL.

Cheers,
            -Tristan