Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] How to release memory of unused widgets?

[Sutou K. <ko...@co...>]

Hi,

In <dfa...@pr...>
  "[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] How to release memory of unused widgets?" on Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:00:23 +0100,
  Leonard Thiele <th...@pr...> wrote:

> I wonder how I am supposed to release memory after I do not need a
> widget anymore.
> Should I use destroy()? Or unref()? Or is the binding taking care of
> releasing memory after I removed the widget from its parent and I do
> not have to worry?

Removed widgets are released when Ruby's GC is ran. You can
use Gtk::Widget#destroy explicitly when you can't wait
Ruby's GC.

> In a more complex project I am working on I use a FileChooserWidget
> which causes segmentation faults when I destroy it and afterwards
> change folder content which I previously watched.
> This is because the FileChooserWidget does not properly clean up after
> itself when I call destroy() on it and so it tries to execute
> callbacks that make no sense after destroying...

Could you file an issue to
https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/issues with a
sample script that reproduces this case?


Thanks,
-- 
kou