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Do not own child widgets to ensure instances can be GC'd once they are no longer required #747
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Type: bug
The following has been addressed in the PR:
Description:
As per the investigation in #745, when a parent owns its widget children it creates a handle reference that is never severed and therefore the widgets are never available for garbage collection.
Removing the automatic
own
on child widgets enables children to be GC'd correctly once they are no longer in use.Related to #745