Re: Adding g_object_get_type?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Darin Adler wrote:

> on 11/9/01 11:30 AM, Havoc Pennington at hp redhat com wrote:
>
> > The "official doctrine" is indeed that you should never put the
> > foo_get_type() functions in your code, always use FOO_TYPE macros
> > instead, because some types are fundamental/builtin and thus not
> > registered via function.
>
> OK. It's too bad because then I have to pass the class name in three formats
> for macros that do things related to classes. Normal:
>
>   GtkObject
>
> Function prefix style:
>
>   gtk_object
>
> And type macro:
>
>   GTK_TYPE_OBJECT
>
> If the get_type functions always existed, then I wouldn't need the third
> format at all. But now I understand that this is not the gobject way.
Shouldn't you just be able to take the second form, convert to upper 
case and replace the first occurence of '_' with '_TYPE_'?  That is what 
I do in my code generator for pygtk.

James.

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