Re: RFC: Reference counts on Gtk2::Tooltips

[Andrew Pimlott <gtk-perl-list andrew pimlott net>]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:46:43PM -0400, muppet wrote:
> well, there's not really a way to leak the tooltips reference in perl, because
> the wrapper will clean up the object when the time comes.  in C, this object
> is leaked simply by virtue of not calling _unref on it.

When does the time come?

> all you really have to do is keep the perl scalar around, either by adding it
> to a hash or setting it as the user_data of some GObject.  having said that,
> i've been writing code around this today and the bookkeeping gets a little
> obnoxious.

I'm confused, but maybe I'm just thinking of the terms differently.
If you put the tooltip in a global variable (or inside some global
data structure) and then forget about it, that's a leak to me.
That's probably what most Perl programmers will do when they
discover that it works around the problem.

Andrew