Improve the docs for g_object_get_property(). (#153424, Stefan Kost)

2004-10-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

	* gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml: Improve the docs for
	g_object_get_property().  (#153424, Stefan Kost)

diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
index 67e574a..9528fdb 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog
+++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-10-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+       * gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml: Improve the docs for
+       g_object_get_property().  (#153424, Stefan Kost)
+
 2004-10-03  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
        * gobject/tmpl/signals.sgml: Improve docs for 

diff --git a/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml b/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml
index 2d16e5d..0f3f4cc 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml
@@ -768,11 +768,11 @@ Gets a property of an object.
 </para>
 <para>
 In general, a copy is made of the property contents and the caller is
-responsible for freeing the memory in the appropriate manner for the type, 
-for instance by calling g_free() or g_object_unref(). 
+responsible for freeing the memory by calling g_value_unset().
 </para>
 <para>
-See g_object_get().
+Note that g_object_get_property() is really intended for language
+bindings, g_object_get() is much more convenient for C programming.
 </para>
 
 @object: a #GObject