On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 19:05 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > Hi, folks. > > In GtkRecentManager we have a singleton, by using _get_default() API. > > My doubt is: When is the static singleton object freed? The > documentation says to not ref or unref it, and that it will be destroyed > when application terminates. yes. > Looking through its source code (gtkrecentmanager.c), I haven't found > where it is unref'd. the RecentManager singleton is synchronised when the depth of the main loop reaches 0 (which is usually when an application quits); the state of the recent files list is, thus, always consistent. the memory is reclaimed by the operating system, along with the rest of the data that is a one-shot creation of the glib, pango and gtk+ libraries; if you look at the valgrind output, you'll notice it - but it's easily filtered using the appropriate "skin": as I said, the memory is effectively reclaimed by the OS. if you want to personally manage the memory and lifetime of a RecentManager instance you can create one using gtk_recent_manager_new() and then use g_object_unref() when needed. gtk_recent_manager_get_default() is there so that you don't need to do the bookkeeping yourself, and so that you are guaranteed to have the same instance throughout your application. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
