Re: stupid question

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

>  > I wellcome any answer because this _really_ makes me feel stupid.
>  > I don't understand. What unrefs our GtkObjects ? after the destruction ?
>  
>  Typically you want to "gtk_objet_destroy" top-level windows, as Gtk+
>  will keep its own reference to them from somewhere.
>  
>  For anything else, we must use the _unref versions of those.

Not quite.

Widgets are a special case of objects for a couple of reasons:

	1. You normally don't own their base reference, as their
           parent container owns it.

	2. Widgets are a kind of objects that you *do* want to be
           unconditionally destroyed at arbitrary times, instead of
           waiting for every interested party to unref() it.

(2) is important because sometimes you do want something like a button
to just disappear, instead of waiting for everyone to unref() it.

So most of the time you either gtk_container_remove() a widget and it
will magically die if there are no other refcounts to it, or you will
gtk_widget_destroy() a widget and it will go away.

For normal objects, you should gtk_object_unref() them.

  Federico