Re: GtkWindow destroy problem

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> on 9/7/01 9:58 AM, Tim Janik at timj gtk org wrote:
> 
> > but if you use GtkObject in a normally refcounted framework other than the
> > gtk widget framework, you should be able to simply do
> >     o = gtk_object_new (GTK_TYPE_OBJECT, NULL);
> >     gtk_object_unref (o);
> > and ignore the gtk specific floating kludge.
> 
> That's what I thought when I started working with Gtk, but after asking lots
> of questions and learning the framework better, I've learned to always doing
> a sink and ref (often in the initialize function) for objects where I am not
> using the floating feature, rather than relying on the knowledge that no one
> will do a sink. Now I learn that you would rather than I didn't do it that
> way -- something new every day!
> 

Well, my view is that hoping no one will ever call sink() is not
particularly good for code maintenance. There's no reason you need to
set this trap for yourself. ;-)

Havoc