On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:01:18 -0600 Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > GtkWidget *widget; > > > > widget = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); > > This is the way you have to do it. As the function name implies, this > allocates a new window. If you want to get rid of it, you have to > unref it which, when the ref count drops to zero, will cause it to be > freed. If you don't you'll have a memory like. This is pretty > standard in C. Of course sometimes an API call gives you a pointer > (reference to an object) but you don't need to free it when you're > done because someone else will.
This is true as an overview of how it works, but you shouldn't call g_object_unref() on a GtkWindow object to get rid of it. You should call gtk_object_destroy() or gtk_widget_destroy() on it, which will (by emitting the destroy signal) cause amongst other things GTK+ to drop its reference to the window. It will also cause GTK+ to do other clean-up, such as taking it out of the list of top level windows. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
