Re: Valgrind errors with UIManager

[Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma gnome org>]

On 12/10/2008 09:47 AM, Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> > The bound refptr is taking an additional reference on the Action object and so that object
> > is staying alive longer than it normally would.  One theory is that when the Action object
> > does finally get destroyed in the TestWindow destructor, some piece of GTK+ data that it
> > depended on might have already been destroyed, resulting in the warnings you see.
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> (Taking this message back to the mailing list, I hope it's ok with you).

Oh, sorry, did I accidentally take the response off-list?

> I changed the callback so that it would fetch the Action object from
> an associative (action_t ->  Action) map, which I made TestWindow's member.
> Everything seems to work just fine now.
> Just binding Gtk::Action* also seemed to work (I had to use
> action.operator->() to get that type).
>
> Anyway, the workaround is known now, thanks for your help!
>
> I wonder if it's a bug in gtkmm/gtk, or just undocumented behaviour.
> Should I file a bug report?

It certainly wouldn't hurt.

thanks,
jonner