Re: g_object_notify on write-only properties?

[Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se>]

On 28 Feb 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

>
> Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se> writes:
>
> > I'm merging lee's GtkLabel GParam changes, and I have a question.
> >
> > The patch currently does
> >  g_object_notify (G_OBJECT (label), "markup");
> > when setting the label from markup, even though the markup property is
> > write only. This seems a bit strange, is it correct?
>
> My opinion is that the ::markup and ::pattern properties should
> be write-only, and the ::attributes and ::label properties should
> be read-write. (I haven't looked at the exact names here)
>
> So, setting ::markup should notify ::attributes and ::label,
> and setting ::pattern should notify ::attributes.

Good, this is what i have done. I'm still totally confused about the type
of the ::attributes property though.

/ Alex