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List:       gtk-app-devel
Subject:    Re: How to convert a jpg image to a GtkImage ?
From:       "Jonathan Winterflood" <jonathan.winterflood () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-09-11 20:29:45
Message-ID: c4d872350709111329t108b4167u24fe8e6d04d1f07d () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

You could clone the
pixbuf, or create a new one the same size and blit the content of the
soon-to-be recycled one into the new one before unref'ing the loader


Jonathan

On 9/11/07, Tom Trebisky <tom@mmto.org> wrote:
>
> Following this thread, I decided it would be wise to avoid this kind
> of leak since my application uses hundreds of loaders to load
> hundreds of pixbufs, so I made my code look like:
>
>         pixbuf_p = gdk_pixbuf_loader_get_pixbuf(my_loader);
>         g_object_unref ( my_loader);
>
>         add_to_my_list ( pixbuf_p );
>
> However, this apparently frees up the pixbuf as well, and everything goes
> to hell in a handbasket as pixbuf_p is now a reference to some piece
> of recycled memory or something like that.  How does one free up the
> loader but retain the pixbuf ?
>
>         Tom
>
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> University of Arizona -- Tucson
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