Some years ago I read about floating references as described in https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html Of course that makes sense. Newly created objects get ref count 1, but are floating. If they get put into a container element, floating ref is converted to ordinary ref, and ref count stays at 1. But I was wondering, why for newly created objects ref count is not just zero, so when the element is put into a container it is just increased to one. So there must be a reason why it can not work this way. Of course when ref count drops to zero the element is deleted. But when a newly created element just has ref count zero, where is the problem? _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
