Re: [g-a-devel]at-spy-cspi reference counting

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:44, David Bolter wrote:
>
> > Is there an implicit Accessible_ref on the accessible returned by 
> > AccessibleRelation_getTarget?
>
>
> 	Yes - any method that returns an Accessible * has to return a new
> reference to it; otherwise it's impossible to manage lifecycle sensibly;
> thus you have to unref them when you're done.
>
>
> > Also, what about Accessible_getRelationSet: is there an implicit 
> > AccessibleRelation_ref for each relation in the returned array?
>
>
> 	at-spi/cspi/spi_accessibe.c: 440 contains the answer to your question;
> cspi is not complicated code; it should be easyish to find these things
> out for yourself.

Even easy enough for me?!  ;-)

A goint point taken.

cheers,

D


> 	It does look like we could benefit from an
> Accessible_RelationSet_free() method that did a deep free for you on
> that lot. Why not knock up a quick patch to do that before the API
> freeze bites :-)
>
> 	Regards,
>
> 		Michael.