Hello, I'd like to continue the discussion here of thread [1] from gtk-app-devel-list:
The question: why is it normal for GTK widget "constructors" to return GtkWidget and not their real type? For instance I would expect: gtk_menu_item_new () To return GtkMenuItem*. But it doesn't, it returns GtkWidget*. IMHO is much clear that constructors return their real type, instead GtkWidget. But maybe there is a technical reason for this. Can someone give me some light about this? Thank you for your responses, PD: If there is not technical reasons, maybe we can change this for GTK+ 3 (or 4 ;)), as I think a change like this will break the 2.x ABI. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2009-September/msg00023.html -- Javier Jardón Cabezas _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list