On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 19:59 +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > On 05/01/2008, Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > try with: > > > > GdkRectangle_copy * > > > > instead of GtkRectangle_ornull *. > > That works, thanks for the help. > > Why didn't it work before?
GdkRectangle_ornull will not copy the return value, but will just return a pointer (plus safety check on NULL values); since the GdkRectangle is put on the stack, this means that you'll get garbage as soon as you try to access the pointer from outside the function. GdkRectangle_copy will copy the stack allocated value into the heap, thus giving back valid data (the memory will be deallocated when the scalar gets garbage collected). ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
