Hi, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath <tarun@webkadai.com> writes: > I am new to Gtk and have been reading up on GObject and GType. What I > have failed to understand is why is it that the GTypeInfo structure > fails to provide a field for instance finalizer functions ? We have > fields for specifying class initialization, class finalization, instance > initialization functions but *not* for instance finalization. > > For specifying an instance finalization function, one needs to > assign it to the finalize member of the GObjectClass in the instance > init function. And in addition, make sure that this user-defined > finalization function also calls the finalize function of the parent > class object. > > Is this the only way to do it ? Have I misunderstood something here ? I think you understood the principles pretty well. Well, most people assign the finalize method when the class is initialized, not in the instance initializer. Sven
