Hi Mathieu, I'm CC'ing gtk-list, because your document might really be helpful to the crowd of newbies like me out there :) Thank you VERY MUCH, I just had a quick look to your doc and I think it will answer most of my questions (Will read it fully tonight). Good job, -- CÃdric On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:10, Mathieu Lacage wrote: > Hi cedric, > > I tried to provide such a document there: > http://le-hacker.org/papers/gobject/index.html > > Mathieu > > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:49, Cedric Marcone wrote: > > Thanks Sven, > > > > That's exactly what I did. But I was not sure if it was considered the > > right way of doing it. > > > > Some more questions : > > > > 1- Why isn't the instance initializer method not handled the same way ? > > > > 2- Is there a consensus about the type returned by the constructor > > (target type (MyInstanceType) or root type (GObject) or even > > intermediate type (GtkWidget)) > > > > 3- Reading GObject documentation, I can read : > > "[GLib Object System provides] a signal system that allows very flexible > > user customization of virtual/overridable object methods [...]" > > Why isn't the finalizers triggered by signals callbacks ? > > > > I know my newbie questions might sound despairing but I couldn't find > > any official documentation on GObject / GType system "best-practices". > > > > Thank you, > > -- > > CÃdric > > > > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 19:57, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Cedric Marcone <marcone@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > sorry if it's a FAQ but, searching the archives, I couldn't find any > > > > helpful pointers. > > > > > > > > When calling g_object_unref(), refcount is decremented. If it reaches 0, > > > > GObjectClass->finalize(Gobject *) is called. And that's a damn good > > > > thing ;) > > > > > > > > If I subclass GObject with a class containg dynamically allocated > > > > instance vars, I will need to provide my own finalize() to get rid of > > > > them, and chain the call to "GObjectClass->finalize()". > > > > > > > > The question is how to provide my own instance finalizer and register > > > > it... > > > > > > Register a class initializer and install the instance finalizer there. > > > Have a look at some example code, almost every GObject does it that > > > way. > > > > > > > > > Sven > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
