Re: appending a clist row

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens linux-austria com>]

learfox furry ao net wrote:

[..]

> One thing you can do is creating a blank array:
>
> gint i, clist_columns = 4;
> gchar **text;
>
> /* Allocate a blank array of strings. */
> text = (char **)malloc(clist_columns * sizeof(char *));
> if(text != NULL)
> {
>         /* Set each pointer to point to an allocated empty string. */
>         for(i = 0; i < clist_columns; i++)
>                 text[i] = strdup("");
> }

just for my curiosity: why do you use strdup() instead of passing the
const char * "" ?

> /* Add the item into the clist. */
> gtk_clist_append(clist, text);
>
> /* Now deallocate text. */
> if(text != NULL)
> {
>         for(i = 0; i < clist_columns; i++)
>                 free(text[i]);
> }
> free(text);
> text = NULL;
> clist_columns = 0;

this would not be necerssery, if you wouldn't have used strdup().

regards ...
clemens