Re: Possible buglet in gtkcontainer.c

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  this is not a bug but intended behaviour, gtk_widget_get_type() returns a
>  valid type id (that has been allocated already if GtkContainer is used, btw),
>  and the arg system uses it to check the validity of the types that are passed
>  to the type functions. the same applies to the gtk_signal_new() function btw
>  (people tend to use GTK_TYPE_ENUM instead of GTK_TYPE_MY_EUNMERATION_TYPE on
>  such occasions, and GTK_TYPE_ENUM is a completely *virtual* type).
>  you can always (and the arg and signal systems need that to get the actuall
>  type's argument size) retrive the corresponding base type with the
>  GTK_FUNDAMENTAL_TYPE() macro.

Oh, I see.  I just saw the implementation of gtk_object_get_type() :-)

Speaking of object arguments, how would I go about passing GdkColors
around?

Thanks for the explanation,

  Federico