Re: Q: gnome-object reference counting

[lacage email enst fr (Mathieu Lacage)]

Dietmar Maurer <dm@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> A GnomeObject is a GtkObject. Both have reference counting functions:
> 
> gtk_object_ref | gnome_object_ref (gtk_object_unref |
> gnome_object_unref)
> 
> Why do we need both?

If I am not mistaken, they don't increase the same refcount...
gnome_object_ref/unref use corba to ref/unref the CORBA::Object
which is encapsulated in the GnomeObject... This allows you to 
ref/unref distant objects.


ragrds,
Mathieu
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