Re: gtk_widget_ref and gtk_object_set_data_full functions

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:51, Luesley, William wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to GTK and am updating some code to build menus (originally
> generated with Glade).  Thanks to the excellent tutorial, I get the basics
> but there are a couple of function calls I have no idea what they are doing.
> After each menu item has been created, the following functions are run.
>
> gtk_widget_set_name(...)
> gtk_widget_set_ref(...)

It's called gtk_widget_ref() ... g_object_ref() may be documented.

> gtk_object_set_data_full(...)
>
> None of these functions are mentioned in the tutorial, and although present,
> are not documented in the API reference.
>
> Apologies in advance if this has been addressed before and I have missed it.

Not answering your questions, but see:

http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/glade-devel/2003-February/000015.html

Which says

> - You get C code which isn't related to how you write code by
>   hand. But if you don't know better, you'll copy anyways.
>   (Why is this code calling gtk_widget_set_name() and ref'ing
>   every widget?)
 
Regards,
                                        Owen