That was pretty neat thanks. On 11/10/09, Tadej Borovšak <tadeboro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- Regards, ~Sid~ I have never met a man so ignorant that i couldn't learn something from him _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
