On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:00:53PM +0000, Chris Vine wrote: > You are looking at it from the perspective of a GTK+ developer and not > an application developer.
(I'm not a GTK+ developer, I just contribute a little) > Application developers not providing applications specifically for > the gnome stack almost never need to sub-class the library-provided GTK+ > widgets. For example, contrary to what you think, they do not sub-class > GtkWindow for their main window. Instead they use the (generally) > perfectly adequate GTK+ container system to put things in GtkWindow > objects, or in library-provided sub-classes of GtkWindow. If they want > to be particularly rigorous, they may provide a convenience factory > function for the purpose. If that doesn't work they probably use > another toolkit, because OO with GObject is a pain for the application > developer writing in C (and as I say, normally completely unnecessary). > Nor for that matter would they normally sub-class GtkApplication: they > just connect to GApplication signals to customize behaviour. > > Only in very specialized circumstances is derivation necessary in the > average application. Yes, for a small application it's another possible code architecture. But I would still recommend to write C code in object oriented style (if the C language has been chosen). Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
