If you can reproduce this memory leak using a short script, I'll  
happily take a look at it.

-Andrei


On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Andrew Buczacki wrote:

>  Quoting Andrei Zmievski <andrei@[...].com>:
> 
> > Sorry for a delayed reply.
> 
> >
> > What kind of object is this "screen"? GtkWindow?
> >
> >
> > Yes, and this is by design (for some objects). Most of the objects
> > like GtkButton, etc will be auto-destructed once they drop out of
> > scope. However, there is a handful (like GtkWindow, and others which
> > I can't remember now) that behave differently. These objects may have
> > internal references held to them from parts of Gtk+. So when a
> > GtkWindow drops out of scope, we check whether the refcount > 1 and
> > if so, we make the internal GtkWindow object "own", that is, hold a
> > reference to its wrapper. Then, if the refcount on the wrapper or the
> > internal object is decreased further, everything is cleaned up.
> >
> > Basically, you shouldn't really worry about memory management in PHP-
> > GTK aside from being aware of this issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > Did you try $this->screenvar->destroy()?
> >
> > -Andrei
> >
> 
>  I've since done a complete overhaul of the code, and now our memory  
>  issues are
>  supressed, if not gone completely.  In my example, the screen was a  
>  GtkHBox
>  which was swapped in and out of a single window.  There was a  
>  manager class that
>  would destroy the current screen (box) and create the next one in  
>  the sequence.
>  Since our memory requirements were rather low and based on the  
>  design of the
>  program we can't front-load all the content.
> 
>  Now, however, I've reduced each screen to its own PHP application.   
>  There's
>  still a manager, but it makes php calls instead of swapping.
> 
>  Using the destroy() method didn't seem to free up any more memory  
>  than the other
>  methods I tried.
> 
>  Sorry if this seems vague, but I don't really remember the old  
>  code, since this
>  new stuff is radically different.
> 
>  Andrew
> 
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