Sounds like a possible candidate for 1.1.2? :) On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FYI that bug should be fixed in 2.0. We now use weak references on both > the handler and the target so we don't keep things alive. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Foord > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:21 AM > To: Discussion of IronPython > Subject: Re: [IronPython] IP as a Macro Language > > Curt Hagenlocher wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Dave Moor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> My problem is, I can create a form entirely in IP but I can't seem to > >> get it added as a MDIChild to the main application, and when the form > is > >> closed the form's timer is still running in the background requesting > >> data from the main application. > >> > > > > For the most part, anything you can do along these lines from C# can > > also be done from within IronPython. Can you provide a snippet of > > Python code that shows the approach that wasn't working for you? > > > > > >> I gather from this list that IP has problems destroying C# objects it > >> has instantiated and I assume that it has problems responding to events > >> triggered from the CLR side. > >> > > > > Both IronPython and C# rely on the same underlying CLR garbage > > collector, so there really shouldn't be any difference in this regard. > > Could you be storing a reference to the form from Python code which > > would prevent garbage collection? For instance, if you assign the > > form to a module-level variable, it will probably never be destroyed > > because the module itself is kept alive by a reference from > > sys.modules. > > > We also had an issue where adding python functions/methods as event > handlers would keep forms alive as IronPython stores a mapping of > handler functions to delegates. > > Explicitly unsubscribing to events on disposal solved that problem - but > it was a lot of work. > > Michael > > > -- > > Curt Hagenlocher > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >
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