Extending GtkRange to support buffered region / GtkRange subclassing limitation
- From: Daniel Yek <dyek real com>
- To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Extending GtkRange to support buffered region / GtkRange subclassing limitation
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:03:44 -0700
Hi,
I subclassed GtkHScale and overrode expose_event virtual function and
others to add additional functionality to the class. I called the parent
classes's (particularly GtkRange's) expose_event implementation to draw the
trough and slider. So far so good.
Due to the lack of support for "buffered region" in GtkRange for multimedia
application, I'm trying to extend its implementation to add that support.
However, GtkRange is extremely inflexible (in my opinion, that is.) Its
layout object is private, gtk_range_calc_layout() function is static, there
is no class virtual functions for layout calculation, no virtual function
for drawing of its parts -- its trough (I investigated GtkStyle, which
can't provide a solution here), etc., making me thinking that my only way
out is create my own GtkRange replacement. I cannot make use of part of
GtkRange functionality because it won't let me. In my opinion, the layout
object should be accessible to the subclass so that subclass can add
drawing on top of the parts correctly whenever necessary.
This also meant that I need my own GtkScale and GtkHScale, even if I don't
need to make any changes in these GtkRange subclasses.
Does anybody see other alternatives to maintaining private stack of
GtkRange, GtkScale, and GtkHScale?
(Is a second rewrite of GtkRange warranted?)
Thanks.
--
Daniel Yek
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