[Gtk-sharp-list] What happened to garbage collection?

[Rafael Teixeira]

Well, probably a GTK# Cursor wraps a much constrained GTK resource,
that must be released as soon as possible, and the GC may release it
some minutes or hours too late. This is typical of graphics/windowing
code, as normally there is contention for hardware-limited resources
(not always memory-related).

HIH, :)


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:16:59 -0500, Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com> wrote:
> In mono-doc on Gtk.TreeView.GetCursor
> (http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?tlink=6@ecma%3a1455%23TreeView%2fM%2f31),
>   in the remarks section, it says:
> 
> Remarks
> The returned path must be freed with TreePath.Free.
> 
> huh? I thought all these would be taken care of by the garbage collection,
> and I don't need to worry about freeing resources anymore.
> 
> What is happening here? Can someone enlight?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Wei
> 
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