Re: Chaining of dispose and finalize

[Jeff Franks <jcf tpg com au>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made an object (View) derived from GObject.
>
> I overide the parent dispose and finalize pointers:
>
>
> static void
> view_class_init(ViewClass *klass)
> {
>     parent_class=g_type_class_peek_parent(klass);       // static
>
>     GObjectClass *gobject_class=G_OBJECT_CLASS(klass);
>     ViewClass *view_class=VIEW_CLASS(klass);
>
>     gobject_class->dispose=view_dispose;
>     gobject_class->finalize=view_finalize;
> ...
> }
>
>
> This means the next two functions should call g_object_real_dispose()
> and g_object_finalize():
>
>
> static void
> view_dispose(View *view)
> {
>     if(view->dispose_has_run)
>         return;
>     view->dispose_has_run=TRUE;
> }
>
> static void
> view_finalize(View *view)
> {
> }
>
>
> But how do i do that when g_object_real_dispose() and g_object_finalize()
> are both declared static in gobject.c ?

With lines like these to call the parent (i.e. GObject) functions in 
view_dispose():

G_OBJECT_CLASS (parent_class)->dispose (view);

and in view_finalize():

G_OBJECT_CLASS (parent_class)->finialize (view);

Jeff.