On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 13:32 +0200, Emmanuel Touzery wrote: > It's annoying for me because I find that putting the real types > in > my code makes it easier to follow (rather than everything being a > GtkWidget*), but if I go that route, I must constantly up and > downcast... > > From my limited understanding of gobject I would think those > widgets could return and take the real type and all will work well? am > I > wrong? or are those historical reasons?
Whatever type is returned, you'll have to do lots of casts, so whatever convention is used, there's no avoiding that. And returning GtkWidget* is just the current convention. I personally would prefer correct types to be used in the API, just to show exactly what type to expect at runtime. But that's a separate issue. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
