Re: General GTK Question : When to Free, when to unref, etc.

[Hubert Sokolowski <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:53:04 -0500
Setzer- <setzer sm-soft org> wrote:

> I'd like to know in which cases should I free char pointers returned
> by 
> the various GTK functions,
> such as gtk_entry_get_text, gtk_tree_model_get, g_locale_from_utf8,
> etc.
when a function returns 'const char*' like gtk_entry_get_text then you
don't free, when it returns 'char*' you do.

> Likely, when should source pointers be freed, with functions like 
> gtk_list_store_set, g_locale_to_utf8, etc.
> It isn't always clear what is being done with the stuff.
>
> I've also been told to use ' g_object_unref ', yet I've never heard of
>
> it in the tutorials, or anywhere else.
> Is it important to use it? In which cases?
this should be written in the reference when to use g_object_unref.


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Hubert Sokolowski