Re: removing signal handler when finalizing a gobject instance.

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:01 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote:
> Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de> writes:
> 
> > hi hi,
> >
> > I have an own gobject class. an instance of this class is used somewhere and
> > signal handlers are connected to signals, where this instance is passed as
> > user_data.
> > Am I right that the application developer is responsible for removing the signal
> > handlers when the instance that is passed as user_data is disposed.
> > Otherwise the signal handler gets called with user_data pointer to invalid mem.
> >
> > If I understand it right, I just need to find a way to do that ...
> 
> The way to do that is using
> 
>   g_signal_connect_object (instance, "foo-signal",
>                            G_CALLBACK (my_callback),
>                            data_object, 0);
> 
> This way the handler is automatically disconnected from "instance"
> as soon as "data_object" goes away.

But notice that 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118536
has not been fixed yet. Tim, any hope for a patch review on that ?

Matthias