Re: GtkOrientable: Can widgets now be flipped?

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming:
> On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> > AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a GtkBox/GtkScale, but not if you
> > create a Gtk[HV]{Box,Scale}... Mitch?
> 
> Ah. Were those base classes (GtkBox, etc) instantiable before?
> 
> If the base classes can now already do everything then shouldn't the V/H
> classes be deprecated already?

Oh, I hear you volunteer to update the gazillions lines of code in the
wild refering those classes? ;-)

I am pretty sure API users would rather switch to Qt, than to follow
this deprecation.

Well, actually those V/H classes even serve a purpose: When using them
in a derived widget you can be sure, that nobody will be that evil to
suddenly change the orientation of your derived widget.

Ciao,
Mathias
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