Re: The use of RefPtr

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 00:55:21 +0000
Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk> wrote:
[snip] 
> It would not be impossible (Gtk::Object enables it) to create the
> Glib::Object wrapper (but only the wrapper) on the stack, but it is
> ill-advised in a custom pure Glib::Object because it requires you to
> fiddle with things which are not part of the public API for glibmm. It
> is not impossible because at the C layer, the only differences
> between a GObject and GtkObject are that (1) the former does not have
> a floating reference but GtkObject does (it comes in fact from
> GInitiallyUnowned)
> - which you can convert to a normal reference anyway with
> g_object_ref_sink(), and (2) GtkObject has a destroy signal which will
> cause all GTK+ containers to release their references to the object.

By the way it is worth reading some of the GTK+ documentation as some of
it is quite good.  Here is the documentation on GtkObject which explains
all this.
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkObject.html

Chris