Hi all. I am using glade and glademm to build a project. I ran into some trouble compiling it. I had a window called MainWindow in a class. The compiler would give me the following error message when I tried to compile: Undefined first referenced symbol in file MainWindow virtual table MainWindow.o MainWindow::SigC::ObjectScoped virtual tableMainWindow.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to product collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 After a considerable amount of work, I managed to solve the problem. To do this, I added all of the signal handler functions to the MainWindow_Glade class as pure virtual . I also removed the "friend class MainWindow_Glade ;" declaration in MainWindow. Myself and several experienced programmers I consulted to solve the error are interested in knowing why glademm uses the friend feature instead of pure virtual functions and inheritance in the classes it generates. In order to use the code, I have to hand-edit all of the generated classes. IMHO it would be better to avoid friends and declare all of the signal handlers a pure virtual in the *_Glade class and utilize the inheritance/polymorphism mechanisms to provide access to them. Thanks for your time, -D PS> please CC me becuase I'm not on the devel list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line "unsubscribe glade-devel" in the body of the message.