Glade and memory

I am using Glade on a Windows platform to build a fairly complicated program that is starting to increase in size with many functions and thousands of lines of code. As a general rule of thumb, is it better to use get_widget once and assign the item to a global variable, or should I just use get_widget in each function that needs to access the widget? Does anyone know the implicationes of each option? Presumably using a global variable means more memory is used, but calling get_widget is probably slightly slower. If you assign a widget to a variable but don't declare the variable global, is the memory released at the end of the function? Thanks everyone! -------------------------------------- Andrew Smith The Blue Box Cape Town http://www.bluebox.co.za andrew@bluebox.co.za 021 683 6017 / 083 659 6106