Re: Q: gnome-object reference counting

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Dietmar Maurer wrote:

> 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?

gnome_object_ref and gnome_object_unref get/release a reference count on a
remote CORBA object implementation, while gtk_object_ref and
gtk_object_unref just ref/unref the local GtkObject.

-- Elliot
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