Re: Gtk::Widget::destory() ?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:46 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:10 -0500, Nickolai Dobrynin wrote:
> > So, assume the following scenario.  I send the delete signal to the
> > window by clicking on the X.
> > By default, this should get the window destroyed, correct?
> 
> No, the "destroy_event" signal is badly named.

Note: It's called "delete_event" actually, though that's just as bad.

>  It is a request to close
> the window. It says nothing about the memory management of the objects
> in your application.
> 
> >   If the way I initially allocated the window
> > was by using the 'new' operator, would "destroy", in this particular
> > context mean that the C++
> > pointer has been invalidated, as well, just like the underlying GTK+
> > instance?
> 
> No.
> 
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch22.html
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >         ...which means that the documentation that Maik brought up at
> >         the
> >         beginning of this thread should really be changed so that it
> >         doesn't
> >         mention anything about Gtk::Widget::Destroy() (which doesn't
> >         exist) 
> >         but instead tell people to 'delete' the widget in the normal C
> >         ++ way.
> 
> 
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