Re: GHashTable

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Andreas Volz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've some questions about GHashTable. I used a GHashTable in the past to
> store some char* key and value pairs without problems. Now I like to
> store GladeXML* as value and a char* as key. This is what I tried:
>
> static GHashTable *glade_hash;
>
> void register_glade_parent (GladeXML *glade_xml, 
> 			    const char *parent_name)
> {
>  static gboolean init = FALSE;
>
>  if (!init)
>  {
>    glade_hash = g_hash_table_new_full (g_direct_hash, g_direct_equal,
>                                        g_free, g_free);
>  
here's your problem.  if i'm understanding correctly, your keys are 
still just char * strings.  the hash function and equal function are 
applied to the key, so you want to use g_str_hash and g_str_equal here.

   -brian