Re: misc. properties

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 2 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes: 
> > But apps would need to be aware of the fact that this property can be 
> > several megabytes in size.
> > 
> > I can see a property editor having problems with that.
> 
> My main worry is that we add the extra notify signal on all buffer
> changes, and also connect a handler from view to the buffer's
> "changed" signal (having a handler immediately slows things down). So
> that's a bit of overhead added to every buffer mutation.

i haven't followed this thread too closely, and you guys should have 
changed the topic eons ago ;) but about notifies on buffer changes,
i wonder whether you couldn't simply coalesce those, e.g. by locking/
unlocking notifiaction around events?

> Of course there are already several signal emissions per mutation, so
> it probably doesn't matter that much.
> 
> It would seem cleaner to me if the "text" property were on the buffer
> instead of the view. Doesn't glade need to be able to handle the
> buffer anyway?
> 
> Right now there are no buffer operations exported by the view.
> 
> Havoc
> 

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ciaoTJ