Hello, First off, I've been so rude to post to this list while not being on it. Please CC me, thanks. I have used GNOME and GTK+ for a long time, but only in the past few days I really got past the "Hello, World" stage. I couldn't help noticing that every foo_new() method had its own policy for what kind of struct to return. A few examples (sorry for using GNOME examples): - gnome_app_bar_new() returns a GtkWidget* (its far, but not "oldest" ancestor) - gnome_mdi_new() returns a GtkObject* (its "oldest", and only ancestor) - gnome_mdi_generic_child_new() returns a GnomeMDIGenericChild (an instance of itself) - gtk_adjustment_new() returns a GtkObject* (its "oldest", but not its only ancestor) I believe that it's common policy to return a GtkWidget* if this is available in the ancestry, and otherwise fall back to a GtkObject -- but why this policy, anyway? And why do some of the above examples draw away from this policy? Thanks, Stefan _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
