On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:13:15PM -0800, Daniel Rogers wrote:
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> | Dont forget to always chain up in any dispose or finalize routines...
> |
> | eg
> |
> | static void
> | finalize(GObject *gobject)
> | {
> |
> | blah ... blah
> |
> | G_OBJECT_CLASS(parent_class)->finalize(gobject);
> | }
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> Didn't know I had to chain up on finalize and dispose, though it makes
> sense. The glib happy way of chaining up btw, is:
>
> static void
> finalize (GObject * gobject)
> {
> ~ blah ... blah
> ~ G_OBJECT_CLASS (g_type_class_peek_parent (GEGL_NAME_GET_CLASS
> (gobject) )->finalize(gobject);
> }
Actually, the common idiom is to define:
parent_class = g_type_class_peek_parent (class);
in class_init, with parent_class being a static at file scope. Then you just
use it as Calvin did whenever you need to chain up. Less code clutter that
way.
-Manish
