Re: garbbage collection in gtk

[Matthew D Allen <s2mdalle titan vcu edu>]

>so my question is:
>       is there a specific garbbage collection mechanism for gtk objects?

Sort of?  Well, yes, but not the way you're thinking of I don't think.  C
doesn't have any garbage collection features, and there are'nt any built
into GTK AFAIK in the lisp/scheme/java sense, but what you're supposed to
do is this:

gtk_widget_destroy(some_widget);

That will destroy some_widget and everything underneath.  (i.e. if it's a
window, then all of the buttons, pictures, everything else in the window
dies too)

You don't have to worry about memory allocation as far as I know.  If you
have dynamically allocated some piece of memory somewhere without the help
of GTK+, you should probably free that, but don't worry about the widget
allocations because that's GTK+s business.

Whenever you're done with a window, just do
gtk_widget_destroy(some_window) and you don't have to worry about anything
else for all intensive purposes (somebody jump in and correct me on some
nitpicky point that I'm doubtlessly forgetting)

Hope it helps

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