Re: The recommended way to destroy a Gtk::Dialog on response?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:16 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> Just found myself in a situation where a Gtk::Dialog has to be
> 
>    1. Allocated using "new"
>    2. Deleted as and when the user presses a button, i.e. on "response".
> 
> (I'm otherwise using Gtk::Dialog with local variables and the run() 
> method most of the time.)
> 
> So, what's the best way of setting up for deletion of the object? I 
> mean, I know how it may be done, of course, but is there any kind of 
> built-in support, or any recommendations?

Just delete it, like any other object.

>  Seems to me that the obvious 
> solution, i.e. doing "delete this" inside a signal handler, is something 
> that one would not necessarily recommend...

Yes, I would personally avoid doing "delete this", and I would avoid
deleting things in the signal handler for the object that I'm deleting.

But this is actually meant to work, so it would be a bug if it didn't.
glib and GTK+ and libsigc++ and gtkmm has code to support it.

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