Re: dispose vs. finalize

[Ben Pfaff]

[I guess I must have forgotten pspp-dev on the first email.
Added.]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:00:36PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      The GObject reference manual seems to say that the "dispose"
>      function for a GObject should do most of the work of destroying
>      an object, e.g. "When dispose ends, the object should not hold
>      any reference to any other member object."
>      
>      It also says, about base_finalize, "Never used in practice.
>      Unlikely you will need it."
>      
>      But I see that some of PSPPIRE's classes don't obey these rules.
>      Is there a good reason for this, that I should pay attention to?
>
>
> No.  Some of the gtk documentation I find confusing. So it's quite
> possible that I've not followed all the rules.  But then a lot of
> the patterns I took from the Gtk source itself - In many instances
> it doesn't follow its own rules.

I'm sure that's true.  I also find the gtk/glib/gobject
documentation confusing (or merely incomplete) in many cases.

>      Or is it OK for me to move code from finalize or base_finalize as
>      I work on related parts of the GUI?
>
> Please feel free to improve on it.

Thank you.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org