OK Thanks, So if I have a Garray member, I call g_array_unref in finalize, because it isn't a child of GObject. Correct? Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 17:24 +0100 schrieb Holger Berndt: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:56:18 +0100 Martin Kalbfuß wrote: > > > what's the difference between dispose and finalize? And which members > > have to be freed in which of these functions? > > See http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/gobject-memory.html > > The difference in short: > > dispose: > - g_object_unref() all GObject member variables > - function must be safe against being called multiple times > > finalize: > - free all other (non-GObject) members, close file descriptors etc > > Holger _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
