All the G*{Init,Finalize}Funcs confuse me!
There are five of them:
-- GBaseInitFunc
-- GBaseFinalizeFunc
-- GClassInitFunc
-- GClassFinalizeFunc
-- GInstanceInitFunc
My Questions are:
1. The Finalize func undoes the Init func. Fair enough. But why is
there no GInstanceFinalizeFunc? See example below:
2. I can't work out from the documentation what the purpose of the
GBase{Init,Finalise} func is, beyond that it has something to do
with derived objects.
Is GBase* called once per instance, or once per class?
3. And does the word `Base' imply the parent of the current object, or
simply that the current object is expected to have derived objects.
4. The documentation talks about the initialisation sequence, but
doesn't make clear what is the responsibility of the programmer,
and what (if anything) is done automatically by the library.
I have a gobject, whose _new function looks like :
GObject*
pgc_new(const gchar *c)
{
PGC *pg;
pg = PGC(g_object_new(TYPE_PGC,0));
g_assert(pg);
pg->info = g_strdup(c);
return G_OBJECT(pg);
}
Now the doco for g_strdup says that the pointer returned must be freed
when no longer needed. But how and when can I do that ?? It needs to
be freed when the object is destroyed, but there is no
GInstanceFinalizeFunc which (to me) would seem the logical thing to
have.
Thanks for your help.
J'
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