On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:35:33PM +0000, Uzytkownik wrote: > I'm so sorry - when should I use weak reference?
Weak reference is a method to get notified that an object was destroyed. Maybe it is better to not think about them as about references at all. When you take a [real] reference on an object, its refcount increases and it will not be destroyed even if everything else releases its references -- because of your reference. Sometimes you want to keep a pointer to an object while not preventing it from destruction. If you simply removed the g_object_ref(), you'd have a pointer, but you would not know whether it is still valid. So you use a weak reference/weak pointer. Yeti -- That's enough. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
