Re: Object referencing in ATK

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

>This is my current thoughts on this subject. I would apprciate any 
feedback you 
>can offer.

>It seems that we need some way of indicating that the ATK object is 
unsafe.

I prefer the idea of an ATK_STATE_DESTROYED state.  I believe that we 
should check this state in the internal implementation rather than just 
checking the "widget" member of GtkAccessible.  This also would provide 
external clients of the ATK interfaces with a way to confirm the state 
of an AtkObject before using it.

It would be nice if clients didn't have to ref/unref the result of 
get_accessible() when re-using it but, this being C, I can't think of 
one.

Regards,

Bill

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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland