Re: removing signal handler when finalizing a gobject instance.

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> 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 ?

yes, either during the holidays or otherwise in late february since university
is keeping me quite busy atm.

> Matthias

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ciaoTJ