Re: Memory allocation in TreeView and TreeModel

["Nils O." Selåsdal <noselasd frisurf no>]

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 19:46, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm asking this for clarification as much as anything else.
>
> I have previously been writing strings into G_TYPE_STRING columns of a 
> GtkListStore (using gtk_list_store_set) and assuming that GTK will use the 
> already-allocated strings in the tree.
>
> I now have a suspicion that GTK is actually copying these strings and using 
> its own copies in the list model. So if appropriate, I should be freeing my 
> original strings after writing them using gtk_list_store_set. Can anyone 
> confirm this?
It will be a copy.
>  From a basic code-test, I am also under the impression that when using 
> gtk_tree_model_get on a G_TYPE_STRING column, the string returned will be a 
> copy of the string used internally for the tree model - and therefore I should 
> free it once I'm done with it. I'd be grateful for confirmation on this point too.
Yes, that will also be a copy. free it.
If this copying is undesired, you could use G_TYPE_POINTER

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Nils O. Selåsdal <noselasd frisurf no>