Re: RFC: Reference counts on Gtk2::Tooltips

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

> however, that behavior is rather surprising.  also, from what i can tell it
> is unexpected, since most C code i've seen actually leaks the tooltips
> objects so they stay alive by accident.

> ...

> 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?

if this is done how do you get rid of the tips, not just disable them. it
would guess that it would require an additional function which is not present
in c that goes through each widget unrefing the pointer to the tips. granted
you probably won't often want to get rid of them.

i vote on doc'ing the behavior as designed.

-rm