Re: Add GtkRadioGroup?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 07:02 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Andrew Cowie
> <andrew operationaldynamics com> wrote:
> 
> > We came up with that solution for the Java bindings (because GSList, as
> > such, wasn't something we exposed, and we go for strongly  typed 'n all
> > that) and meanwhile Vreixo found that the Radio* API was very tricky to
> > explain to people
> > http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/RadioGroup.html
> >
> > so for example,
> >
> >        group = new RadioGroup();
> >
> >        opt1 = new RadioButton(group, "Kermit");
> >        opt2 = new RadioButton(group, "Animal");
> >        opt3 = new RadioButton(group, "Gonzo");
> >        opt4 = new RadioButton(group, "Fozzie");
> 
> the API in gtkmm (C++ bindings) is very similar except that the
> lifetime scope of "group" doesn't need to extend past the creation of
> the RadioButtons. the RadioGroup has no real semantics or methods
> other than to collect a set of RadioButtons into the same "group" as
> they are created. does the java one add other functionality to the
> RadioGroup?

By the way, are there any other places where the java or C++ bindings do
"cleanup" changes like this? Some may be interesting to push into the
core now that we have the chance.

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