Re: recently-used.xbel

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 23/01/2015 13:02, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 11:55 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> > So what API calls do I need to eventually arrive at a pointer to the
> > RecentManager object?
> If you just call Gtk::RecentManager::get_default() (or
> gtk_recent_manager_get_default) instead of instantiating it yourself
> then you can get it anywhere you like.

On 22/01/2015 19:48, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> a GtkRecentManager is a GObject; you just connect to the changed
> signal, like you would on any other GObject instance.

Thanks guys.  I only managed to return to this today but after following 
your advices, I've managed to set up a working handler function.  I can 
iterate over my Gtk::RecentManager entries and remove any that I don't 
want.  However I've hit a couple of things that I'm not 
understanding....  I'm using Gtk::RecentManager::get_items() to return a 
std::vector which contains my current RecentManager entries:-

https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/stable/classGtk_1_1RecentManager.html#a912d8842be7d550b1ff30dbe4f36636c

According to the above documentation, once I've finished doing whatever 
I'm doing, I need to call 'Gtk::RecentInfo::unref()' for each entry in 
the vector.  The first problem is that the relevant function is called 
'unreference()' (rather than 'unref()') so the documentation needs to be 
corrected.

The second problem is that (after I've unreferenced all the entries) I'm 
supposed to call Glib::list_free()' to free the returned list (which is 
in fact, a vector).  And there's no such function as 'Glib::list_free()' 
AFAICT.  I'm using glibmm ver2.42.0.  Am I looking in the wrong place?

John