Re: Release memory for a GtkWindow

[mrl netbank com br]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:50:04AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> mrl netbank com br writes:
> > In this case would be better you call 2 times gtk_widget_unref(window)
> > becose when you create it, it has ref count at 1, you referenced it, so it's
> > at 2, and then you wanna delete, so 2 - 1 = 1   1 - 1 = 0, it's 2 times you
> > have to call, becose you didn't release the reference of the builder
> > function.
>
> No! That isn't correct. When you create a window it has a ref count of
> 1, but that count is owned by GTK. You can't call unref(), you must
> call gtk_object_destroy(), which will cause GTK to drop its count. If
> you can unref() then GTK will segfault eventually.
>
> In the example code I think gtk_object_destroy() on the window will
> free everything, though I don't understand why the extra ref on the
> child button is used, since containers ref their children anyway.
>
> Havoc
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Oops! sorry.. hehe :)
I thought it was just referenced to optimize the creations, then you wouldn't
need to call gtk_widget_ref(..) again..

BTW, calling gtk_object_destroy() will destroy the widget, even if it has
refcount = 2, 3, ... or it will just return?

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