From: Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu at nerim.net>
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:48:38 +0200
To: Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
Cc: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: GDraw.pixmap - do they get cleaned up by the garbage collector?
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 Richard Jones [Wednesday 5 July 2006] :
 >
 > 
 > If I create pixmap using GDraw.pixmap, and later that pixmap
 > becomes unreferenced, will the garbage collector clean up the
 > object, and more importantly, cause the X server to free up the
 > pixmap?

Well it's no different than with other GObjects: when the caml objects
is collected, the GTK object has its refcount decremented. Wether the
X resource is freed or not when the refcount reaches zero depends on
the behaviour of GTK/GDK. 

-- 
   Olivier