Re: finalize, dispose and destroy

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
[snip]
> Is that good enough if my widget is a container?  And if it holds
> some weird references to other widgets (i.e. ones that GtkContainer
> implementation cannot detect)?

    If the refcount on a container drops to 0, it is up to the
container to release its resources, if it "contains" other objects,
it is up to the container to hold a reference on them untill the container
is finalized (at which point it g_object_unref's its contents), if
the user doesn't want a contained object to be destroyed as a result
if the containers destruction, he must hold an explicit reference.

Usualy this is the case (the death of the container triggers the death
of its components).

Cheers,
                           -Tristan