GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Murray Cumming
The new GtkOrientable's documentation http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-Orientable.html#gtk-Orientable.description says: Historically, such widgets have been realized as subclasses of a common base class (e.g GtkBox/GtkHBox/GtkVBox and GtkScale/GtkHScale/GtkVScale). GtkOrientable is

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Hagen Schink
Hi! On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:51:10 +0100 Sven Herzberg herzi...@gnome-de.org wrote: AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a GtkBox/GtkScale, but not if you create a Gtk[HV]{Box,Scale}... Mitch? Gtk[HV]Box sets only the property in init. So it should be possible to change the orientation. In

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Dywan
Am Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:07:34 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com: The new GtkOrientable's documentation http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-Orientable.html#gtk-Orientable.description says: Historically, such widgets have been realized as subclasses of a common base

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a GtkBox/GtkScale, but not if you create a Gtk[HV]{Box,Scale}... Mitch? Ah. Were those base classes (GtkBox, etc) instantiable before? If the base classes can now already do everything then shouldn't

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Colomban Wendling
Christian Dywan a écrit : This is how the current state is to my awareness: It is meant to work so that subclasses such a GtkHFoo and GtkVFoo behave the same as they used to, and can't flip. However if you use the originally abstract base class 'orientation' works as expected, at

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a GtkBox/GtkScale, but not if you create a Gtk[HV]{Box,Scale}... Mitch? Ah. Were those base classes (GtkBox, etc) instantiable

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 18:47 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a GtkBox/GtkScale, but not if you create a Gtk[HV]{Box,Scale}... Mitch?

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 21:04 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 18:47 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 21:36 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 21:04 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 18:47 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100,

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 21:57 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 21:36 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 21:04 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 18:47 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
[...] If the base classes can now already do everything then shouldn't the V/H classes be deprecated already? Gtk[VH]Foo deprecation++ from me, yes it should be deprecated if it doesnt serve a purpose - hardcoding the orientation IMO does not serve a purpose at all. Somebody made

Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

2009-02-08 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: So can they actully be flipped at runtime now? The documentation seems to suggest that they can't if they still use the old common base classes. The intention is to eventually make GtkScale and friends instantiatable.