Yea, I wasn't sure whether to put a :-( or a :-) ( :-) ). The thing is, strings getting copied around so often seems like memory waste to me... when it passes the text to Pango, does that keep a pointer itself? freetype? how many times is the same text kept multiple times in memory? i guess for strings it doesnt really matter because it's not that much memory wasted. Still, gnome/gtk's memory usage seems pretty high (see ReducingMemoryUsage on the wiki)
Samuel On 10/10/06, David Nečas (Yeti) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:58:20PM -0400, Samuel Cormier-Iijima wrote: > > Whenever you set the text, the widgets will keep copies of the text > > for themselves. (they duplicated the string so it's not showing the > > actual contents of *your* string). To update it, you'll have to set > > the text again for the widgets. :-( > > Correct, although the :-( is rather misplaced, because this > is a *good* thing. > > Consider the widget just takes your string. It still > doesn't know you are modifying the contents so you still > have to use some sort of explicit notification. Not > speaking about changes in length that require memory > reallocation. Not speaking about locking when some widget's > function could be executed while you are modifying the > string... > > In other words, plain C strings typically have only one > owner (at any time point) who can modify it and who is > responsible for freeing the string because other approaches > are hard to get right. The ownwer is either you or the > widget, not both. > > Yeti > > > -- > Whatever. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
