Re: [Fxruby-users] How to show stuff created at run time (not the easy question)

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 7:27 PM, Will Merrell wrote:

> Now, does the @propertyFrame.removeChild(@matrix) call also clean up 
> all of
> the elements contained in @matrix, or do I also need to clear them out?

Yes, removeChild() first unlinks that child widget (@matrix) from its 
parent's list of child widgets, and then it blows the child and all of 
its children away.

> Further, how does Ruby's garbage collection play into this? What gets
> automatically cleaned up, and what do I need to explicityl clean up?

The garbage collector should do the right thing; you shouldn't need to 
explicitly clean up anything in this case.