Re: GtkPlacesSidebarClass defined in the .c file

[Juan Rafael García Blanco <juanrgar gmail com>]

Hi,

Thank you very much. Yes, I didn't realize that that could be the
reason. What about my second question, regarding the open_location
signal?


On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 22:50 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> hi;
>
> On 4 September 2013 21:08, Juan Rafael García Blanco <juanrgar gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I'm new to Gtk+ and OSS development. I'm wrapping GtkPlacesSidebar in
> > gtkmm. I've found that the GtkPlacesSidebarClass structure is defined in
> > the .c file, and it contains virtual functions. This has bad
> > implications in gtkmm, as those function pointers need to be exposed. I
> > think it's not general practice to put the *Class structure in the .c
> > file; should I file a bug on this? I can easily provide a patch for
> > this.
>
> it's the recommended practice to hide the instance and structure
> classes in the source file if the class is 'final', i.e. it's not
> supposed to be subclassed.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.