On Mon, April 28, 2008 15:43, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Juerg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, April 28, 2008 12:55, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: >> > I want to use a gst_bin_remove function [1], but I want the Element >> > that is removes not to be freed. For that I need to call >> > gst_object_ref before gst_bin_remove (See also [1]). How do I call >> > gst_object_ref in vala? >> >> This essentially means that you want to keep a reference to the child >> element. So just store it in a local variable or field and Vala will >> increment the reference count automatically. It will currently just >> call >> g_object_ref, not gst_object_ref, but that should work fine, we could >> change that to gst_object_ref for GstObjects. >> > Thanks, are you also planning on providing a function in vala to > increase ref count. Introducing another variable so you can increase > the refcount is a bit hacky if you ask me.
Well, the point is that it only makes sense to increase the reference count if you have a reference to the object (else you leak memory). Why do you want to increase the reference count just without that, can you explain the situation? Juerg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
