Re: gtk-widget-ref undefined in guile-gnome0-gtk 2.7.99-4

[Kevin Ryde]

Stanislas Pinte <address@hidden> writes:
>
> My problem is that I am dynamically creating vboxes using (glade-xml-new
> ...). These vboxes are not the top-level container, they have a parent,
> which is why I must call (unparent ...).

It's not simply gtk_container_remove that should be used is it?

> And i think this causes the unexplained crash we have been experiencing
> since one month:
> as we call (unparent...) the GTK ref counter drops to 0 --> maybe the
> GTK cleaner kicks in, and causes our G_IS_OBJECT(...) assertion failed
> crash

Sounds likely.

> That's why, while reading other C sources using notebook pages and
> component instantiated by glade-xml-new, I saw other people doing an
> gtk_widget_ref before the unparent.

Is unparent meant to be used outside widget implementations?  The
comments / docs suggest not.

(The guile-gtk bindings have an unparent too, also with no special ref
handling, so perhaps it's affected too.)