Re: GTK_FLOATING broken in 2.9?

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> Murray Cumming wrote:
>
>>>On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Murray Cumming wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>In GTK+ 2.9, GTK_FLOATING is deprecated and README.in states that it
>>>> can
>>>>no longer be used to detect floating objects. I hope nobody is using
>>>>that. I assume that effort was made to avoid this ABI breakage.
>>>>
>>>>But does this also mean that setting GTK_FLOATING has no effect with
>>>>2.9?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>right, since the floating flag is stored in GObject in 2.9, so altering
>>>the GtkObject won't have any effect.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Eek. This is where we discover who else uses that.
>>
>>
> Are you saying that you are manually tweaking the value of GTK_FLOATING,
> rather than using g_object_ref() / gtk_object_sink() pair?

Yes, we are using GTK_OBJECT_SET_FLAGS(objcet, GTK_FLOATING). I'm not sure
of any alternative to that, without glib 2.9. g_object_ref() +
gtk_object_sink() goes in the other direction.

It's not the most fun part of the gtkmm code.

> There is the possibility for a reference leak if someone sinks a
> GtkObject using the new GObject API (so the GTK_FLOATING flag would be
> incorrect), but gtk_object_sink() should still do the right thing.



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