Hello. > Is there any documentation available for it ? as to when to ref and > unref it based upon the api's ? You don't need to know those things, since object's total reference count is of no importance to you. All you need to do is keep track of your own references on an object. Let me explain this based on your example. When you create new store for GtkTreeView (be it GtkListStore or GtkTreeStore), you get an object that has a reference count of 1 and this reference is owned by you and is the only thing that is keeping you newly created object "alive". Now you add this store to the GtkTreeView, which is from now "co-owner" of the store. I intentionally co-owner in last sentence, because you don't need to know what exactly GtkTreeView does to claim ownership (it can add 1, 2 or 10 references if it needs to). If you don't need created store for anything else, you can now remove your own reference from it, which essentially makes GtkTreeView the only "owner" of the store. You can see that no explicit reference counting wizardry is needed to properly count references. Just make sure your own references are removed when you don't need an object to stick around. Tadej -- Tadej Borovšak tadeboro.blogspot.com tadeboro@xxxxxxxxx tadej.borovsak@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
