Re: [gtk-list] Re: Reference counting

[Owen Taylor <owt1 cornell edu>]

Patrice Fortier <Patrice.Fortier@aquarel.fr> writes:

> Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > I'm still tinkering with the reference counting of Gtk.  Below is a
> > text that describes how I think it should work.  Everything except the
> > GtkObjects stuff has been implemented and is available as a patch from
> > ftp.gimp.org as gtk-mvo-971013-0.patch.gz.  I hope to have something
> > for the GtkObjects soon.

> As a gtk new user, I'd like to find some doc about this ref description
> to understand what are the differences between: how it is, and your
> modifications.
> Is there any doc somewhere? except the source code I mean :).

No, the source code (and mailing list archives) are the only
documentation you'll find. But I wouldn't worry about it much.
Before Marius's work there was no consistent scheme for reference
counting.

The original setup worked pretty well for the simple cases in C, but
not otherwise.

Regards,
                                        Owen