Re: Object finalization and automatic signals disconnection.

[Ali Abdallah <aliov xfce org>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Ali Abdallah <aliov xfce org> wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > g_signal_connect //(instance, detailed_signal, c_handler, data), if the
> > object which connects to this signal is freed and the instance is not so the
> > signal is not automatically disconnected, next signal sent by the instance
> > is guaranteed to produce a SIGSEV.
> >
> > It is very annoying in these cases to disconnect all the signals by hand (by
> > id, or name or whatever), unfortunately i didn't find something like
> > g_object_disconnect_all ( like in motif for example), and i have read
> > somewhere that this is planned for future versions of glib!
> >
> > Do you know more or less when this is going to happen?
> > Do you have a better work-around approach than disconnecting the signals by
> > id.
> >     
>
> g_signal_connect_object is what you want.
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-Signals.html#g-signal-connect-object
>
> Unfortunately, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118536 makes
> it much less useful than it could be, and my patch to fix it never got
> reviewed...
>   
But this is known to be buggy right! so better to avoid using it 
specially if it is going, who knows, to be deprecated.

Anyway it seems that the work-around described in the API doc is a 
better idea, until the function gets fixed ( 6 years old bug ).

Cheers and thanks for the help.