Re: bonobo questions

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> 1) i noticed that there is no gnome_object_new or 
> gnmoe_object_new_with_servant function. Is this on purpose ? or is this 
> something to be done ?

There is no use for a plain GnomeObject, it is an abstract class.  

gnome_object_new_from_servant() might be a good addition.  Could you
picture some case in which this could be used?

> 2) i noticed that impl_GNOME_Unknown_ref  does not call gnome_object_ref . 
> This is to be considered a bug i think.

The code does the equivalent code of gnome_object_ref, but for
maintainability it might be a good idea to do what you suggest.

> 4) what use is the query_interface signal ? is it aimed at allowing the user 
> to hook its own signal handler on it ? If so, what could such a signal 
> handler be usefull for ?

Yes, that is the idea.

The idea is to have a "virtual" big object.  This enables the user to
delay initialization of expensive interfaces until they are actually
required.  

For example, an interface that would take a lot of time to startup;
An interface that would use a lot of memory;  An interface that is
very CPU intensive.

So we enable the user to do lazy-construction of his object.


Miguel.