On 8/9/07, Carlos Savoretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > > Several objects within a program has a Xml buffer taken from > xmlDocDumpFormatMemory (), one for each of them. Only one of > those objects will be displayed at a time. > > Question is: > Is it saved a "lot a memory" if I just keep the xml buffer and > use glade_xml_new_from_buffer () when the object would must to > be shown; or (easier from the programming point of view) rightly > use glade keeping a lot of "glade" built trees possibly not used > any more but now the xml buffer can be freed. > > Do I be clear ? (When doubt appears it's probably not...) > Shortly: GladeXml objects with a moderate amount of widgets are > very resource consuming ? or not compared against > xmlDocDumpFormatMemory () result ? > > Thanks a lot. > > > Carlos Savoretti.
I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're asking, but I asked a question on this list about keeping the GladeXML object and calling glade_xml_get_widget each time I need a widget. In general, that seems like a bad idea, just call glade_xml_get_widget once for each widget you need, store the pointers, and unref the GladeXML. So in your case, I think you'd free the data returned by xmlDocDumpFormatMemory as well, so the only things actually in memory are the widgets themselves. Rather than destroying them when they're not needed, just hide them, and show again when needed. -Jim _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
