Re: [g-a-devel]Implementing ATK on Custom Widgets

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

> Hi Padraig,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 11:00, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > What I have done is put the data you had in the ZvtAccessible structure into 
a 
> > new ZvtAccessiblePriv structure and provide a function 
> > zvt_accessible_get_private_data() which returns a pointer to the 
> > ZvtAccessiblePriv structure for a ZvtAccessible structure
> > 
> > The code in the _get_type() which calculates the size of the instance data 
is 
> > changed, compared to the code in htmlviewaccessible.c, to be the size of the 
> > instance data for the parent class plus the size of the ZvtAccessiblePriv 
> > structure.
> 
> 	I havn't looked at the code; but this sounds just horribly evil, and
> "not the done thing" - it is normal to use GObject data for this sort of
> thing, instead of something like this - that is unless you need to
> override virtual methods or something; even so I'd be inclined to
> inherit with the same size instance/class and use the GObject data.


If we can override virtual methods using GObject data then I agree that it would 
be less evil.


> 
> 	Really.
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list
> Gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel