Re: RFC: Reference counts on Gtk2::Tooltips

[Chas Owens <alas wilma widomaker com>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, muppet wrote:

> it's not a bug, it's feature.  no, really!
>
> short version:
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>    should $tooltips->set_tip ($widget, ...) save a reference to $tooltips
>    in $widget, or simply document the fact that you have to save the
>    $tooltips object or the tooltips don't show up?
<snip />
> it is trivial to have the perl wrapper for set_tip keep a reference on the
> tooltips object so that it will stay alive; my question is, since it's
> behaving as designed, is this subversion the right thing to do?  or should we
> simply document the behavior in a "pitfalls" or "gotchas" document?
>
>
> --
> muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>

I think we should document it in the pitfalls document regardless of which solution we choose.  I lean 
towards performing as designed.  It becomes obvious to the programmer that something is wrong (the tooltips 
don't show up) and -- if the programmer is smart -- he/she will RTFM and find the solution.
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