From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
To: Stephen Tell <tell@cs.unc.edu>
Cc: Guile-Gtk List <guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Converting GdkEvent from C to Guile
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:51:00 -0000
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Stephen Tell <tell@cs.unc.edu> writes:

> Just to make sure I understand Gdk's (undocumented) rules: when I get the
> GdkEvent as an argument to a handler set with gtk_signal_connect(),
> Gdk/Gtk is going to free the event when the handler returns.

Yes, more or less.  It just reuses the memory for the next event, in
the normal case.

> So if I let it escape to the guile-gtk world, I set COPYP to TRUE,
> so guile frees its copy when it is done with it.

Correct.
 
- Marius