Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] ref and unref

[<jc...@gm...>]

Ooop, excuse me, I think I found my problem.

gobject-introspection seems to be reffing the object it gets back from
vips_image_new(), even though constructors should not do this (I
think). How can I stop gobject-introspection from making this extra
reference?

If I run this code:

x = Vips::Image.new
x.print_dump

at the end of the C vips_image_new() function, the object has a
reference count of 1. But when x.print_dump runs, I see a count of 2.
When I then run:

x = nil
GC.start

the count drops to 1, but never to zero, so the object is not freed.

I tried adding a (transfer full) annotation to vips_image_new(), but
it made no difference, gobject-introspection still made an extra
g_object_ref() during new.

John