Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Thoughts about widgets

[Anthony Liguori <anthony codemonkey ws>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:22:41AM -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
>   
> > Hi, folks.
> >
> > I was wondering why vncdisplay widget destroys itself. Isn't up to the
> > container destroy its children?
> >     
>
> It doesn't destroy itself directly - GTK widgets are reference countered. 
> The VNC display object increments the reference count when the coroutine
> starts, and decrements it when the coroutine exits. This last action
> may or may not actaully destroy the widget - it depends on whether
> the parent container has already released its own reference.
>
> We need the reference counting, because if we didn't have it, then the
> container could destroy the widget while the coroutine is still running.
>   

Yeah, I just looked through the code, it doesn't look like we're doing 
wrong thing.  Maybe you have a memory corruption in Vinagre that is 
leading to a bogus reference count in the widget?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Dan.
>