Hi muppet,
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 21:05 -0400, muppet wrote:
> On May 28, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, GObject::constructor has no Perl counterpart: you can
> > control the initialisation of an Glib::Object but you can't control
> > the
> > creation of the instance itself. I've had a look at the Glib::Object
> > creation flow, and the changes for supporting a CONSTRUCTOR
> > function are
> > not trivial (maybe muppet or Torsten have some patch lying around so
> > I'll be shamed into a corner, though ;-)).
>
> No patch, sorry. The main reason for not binding it back in the day
> was that subclassing GObjects in perl is already unnatural enough...
Yeah, I thought about that.
The syntax for allowing overriding the constructor would be something
like this:
sub CONSTRUCTOR
{
my ($class, $params) = @_;
my $self = $class::SUPER->constructor($class, $params);
# ... do stuff with the newly created instance ...
return $self;
}
which would *really* be unnatural.
> Although, if it's really the only way to do a particular trick, we
> can work something up.
That's the only way to control an object with constructor and
constructor-only properties.
Ciao,
Emmanuele.
--
Emmanuele Bassi - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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