On Jun 8, 8:44 am, romant <[email protected]> wrote: > Is in this case necessary to register/unregister any of the event > handlers in onLoad/onUnload > methods to avoid circular references/memory leaks? I checked the > source code of Widget component and > there is something what looks like it takes care about registering/ > unregistering the handlers. > > My current opinion is that only when I register an event listener by > calling DOM.setEventListener(element, listener) > instead of addDOMHandler() method then I should take care of > registering/unregistering of the listener in onLoad/onUnload methods. > And I also think that the same would be valid if extended Widget > instead of Composite. > > Is that right?
I believe so. If you use the new handler system (from any class extending Widget) registering an unregistering the handlers is done by HandlerManager via in the Widget class. Using the event listeners 'raw' would require you to unregister them before DOM detachment. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
