Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Thanks and some questions

[Mark H. <mh...@ti...>]

On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 21:30, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> This might be the underlying GTK+ that makes this hard. Since C/GTK+
> doesn't have ref counts as in Java I'm not sure if the fact that you
> keep a java ref on an object makes you have a gtk-ref on the C-object.
> 
> My guess is that you have to be careful how you use the widgets and that
> you will have to explicitly call g_object_ref (not sure if that is
> wrapped or not) to keep a reference to a widget in a closed window after
> destroying the window but I'm not sure.
I've been talking about this lately to the other java-gnome developers.
We are probably going to implement a system so that there will always be
a gtk-ref when the java object exists. Implementation of this is being
delayed until after 0.8 release.

> You probably want to work with Glade/Libglade (not sure if it is wrapped
> in java-gnome yet) 
It is done with java-gnome, although I've not used it myself yet. 
Not in the Debian packages at the moment (perhaps I'll find some free
time this week...)
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