Re: [gnome-db] GObject question

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 17:18, Malerba_Vivien stna dgac fr wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm not sure there is another signal you could use to be notified before
> > the object is destroyed.
> 
> I've made some tests and it looks like within the "dispose" method, the
> ref_counter is still 1, so I assume the "dispose" method gets called
> before the "finalize" method when an object is being free'd (this is
> what I can see from the gobject.c file l.423). 
> 
> So I assume I can emit signals from within the "dispose" method, and the
> I have quite a lot of modifications to be done on some objects.
> 
> Is there any way to make sure about that way of doing things?
> 
you want to notify when the object is destroyed? In that case, I guess
the best thing is to just use weask references from the "client" (the
objects to be notified of the destruction).

cheers