Re: Changing cursors

[Marco Quezada <mquezada nlxcorp com>]

Got it, thanks for pointing out my mistake. Is there a way to find out
when a pointer, like the cursor in this case, can be
destroyed/unreferenced after it has been used without having to wait for
the program to core dump?

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Marco Quezada <mquezada nlxcorp com> writes:
> > You can use something like this:
> >
> > gdk_window_set_cursor(GTK_WIDGET(window)->window,
> >
> > gdk_cursor_new(GDK_WATCH));
> > gdk_flush();
> >
> > This will use the default cursors defined in gdkcursors.h
>
> This leaks the cursor, you need:
>  cursor = gdk_cursor_new (GDK_WATCH);
>  gdk_window_set_cursor (window, cursor);
>  gdk_cursor_destroy (cursor);
>
> Havoc

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