Re: libglade replacement for gtk+ 2.8 [SNEAK PREVIEW]

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Johan Dahlin wrote:

> * GObject Serialisation
>
> At some point GObject is going to support serialisation and that we
> should be prepared to support that.
> Currently the only state available through introspection of a GObject
> are the properties.

On the subject of serialisation, there are some objects in GTK that can 
be entirely described by their properties, but the current property 
introspection interface doesn't provide enough information to serialise 
them.  With some objects, there are dependencies between the properties.

For example, consider the "group" and "active" properties of 
GtkRadioButton.  You want to set "group" to another radio button in the 
group, and "active" to false.  If you set "group" first, things will 
work.  If you set "active" first, it won't have any effect, since the 
radio button can't be inactive if it is the only member of the group.

James.