Re: Just out of curiosity

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Buch, William H." <bbuch@hqm.com> writes:

> When the final procedure gtk_main_quit() is called, what happens?  does
> complete garbage collection follow?  What happens about un-parented
> objects, such as dialog
> windows, when the program ends.  Do I need to write my own procedure for
> closing down before calling gtk_main_quit?

After you create everything, you called 

 gtk_main();

Probably at the end of your main() function.

All gtk_main() does is make this call quit. Any cleanup GTK+
needs to do is done in atexit() functions, and won't occur until
your application exits. (All windows and memory resources
get cleaned up in any case by X and/or the OS, but there are
a few additional items that GTK+ wants to take care of.)

It is perfectly legitimate to call gtk_main() then gtk_main_quit()
multiple times in an application.

If you need to do program specific cleanup, a good place to
do it is after the call to gtk_main().

 /* Create the widgets */

 gtk_main(); /* Run the program */

 /* Cleanup any app-specific stuff */

Regards,
                                        OIwen