Re: more boxed types

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, James Henstridge wrote:

> One thing I would like to see before the API freeze is to add get_type()
> calls for more of the boxed types in gtk+ (and maybe pango).  The ones I
> could think of off the top of my head were:
>   GdkCursor
>   GdkDevice
>   GtkCTreeNode (questionable; deprecated widget, but type needed for LBs)
> 
> Having typecodes for these types is helpful if some addon library wants to
> use them as signal arguments, and can also be helpful in language bindings
> (my python bindings now have code that makes it very easy to handle types
> that have been registered as boxed types).
> 
> Fixing the first two should be fairly easy, and non intrusive.  The last
> would involve registering null handlers for the copy and release functions
> for the boxed type, and adjust the argument lists for GtkCTree's signals.
> 
> I will put together a patch for this.

please go ahead and prepare a patch as soon as possible.

> 
> James.
> 

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ciaoTJ