On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:41:22 +0100 Gabriele Greco wrote:
> After some headache with my gtk C++ classes I've found with a small
> test program this fact about the gobject references:
Sorry, not sure what you're trying to do. Are you trying to do
something with gtkmm? Or are you creating your own bindings?
> Here is the code (tested with GTK 2.12):
>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> gtk_init(NULL, NULL);
>
> GtkWindow *w = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
> GtkWidget *l = gtk_label_new("Test");
>
> printf("Window\nStart: %d ", G_OBJECT(w)->ref_count);
> g_object_ref_sink(G_OBJECT(w));
Gtk owns all toplevel windows. It already does _ref_sink() on
GtkWindows on creation (see gtk_window_init() in gtk/gtkwindow.c). In
this case, if you want to keep an extra reference to 'w', you'd just
call g_object_ref() on it.
> printf("Sink: %d ", ((GObject *)w)->ref_count);
> g_object_unref(G_OBJECT(w));
This should be ok as well, IFF you've previously called g_object_ref()
and thus own a reference to it. As I said, Gtk owns the initial
(non-floating) reference GtkWindow that you get back with
gtk_window_new().
> printf("End: %d\n", ((GObject *)w)->ref_count);
>
> printf("Label\nStart: %d ", G_OBJECT(l)->ref_count);
> g_object_ref_sink(G_OBJECT(l));
> printf("Sink: %d ", ((GObject *)l)->ref_count);
> g_object_unref(G_OBJECT(l));
> printf("End: %d\n", ((GObject *)l)->ref_count);
> }
This more or less works (because non-window GtkObjects are created
floating), but that's usually not what you'd want to do. Again you'd
probably want to just take a normal reference on the widget and then
unref it when you don't need it anymore. When you add a widget to a
container, it will take care of ditching the floating reference and
taking a real reference.
-brian
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