Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Possibly another memory leak in TreeView#append_column(@column)

[Masao M. <mu...@hi...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:33:32 -0800 (PST)
Joao Pedrosa <joa...@ya...> wrote:

> > But on each loop I want to create a new TreeView
> > with
> > a new model (TreeStore), and everything related to
> > the
> > old TreeView would be freed up automatically as
> > every
> > reference to it would me removed and would leave it
> > to
> > be garbage collected.

Hmm. You may be right, though I need times to consider 
about it.

> So now I think that deserves some documentation.
> Because in the OO world with Garbage Collection we
> aren't used to freeing up the resources. It would help
> enormously to know what resources should be freed
> manually.
> 
> While writing the PyGTK version I missed something
> like the Ruby-GNOME2 documentation. :-) They follow
> the GTK API more closely, but I prefer the
> enhancements that we have. For example:
> 
> -- PyGTK --
> iter = self.model.append(None)
> self.model.set_value(iter, index, 'value')
> 
> -- Ruby-GTK+2 --
> iter = @model.append(nil)
> iter.set_value(index, 'value')

-- Ruby/GTK2 --
iter = @model.append(nil)
iter[index] = 'value'

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mu...@hi...>