Re: [Clg-devel] clg-CVS

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:52:34AM +0100, Espen S Johnsen wrote:
> Christophe Rhodes <cs...@ca...> writes:
> 
> > There's some stuff at <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/clg/>, all
> > bar one of which works, I think -- it's a start of the translation of
> > the GTK tutorial into clg.
> 
> Nice, I have only looked briefly at your examples (I'm in a bit of
> hurry, going on vacation in a couple of hours) so I don't know what is
> working and what is not. But I noticed your use reinitialize-instance to
> add children to containers; the preferred method is to either use
> container-add or a :parent initarg when creating the children. For
> boxes, a third option is the box-pax function.

OK -- is there any reason for this? Is it that reinitializing the
instance is likely to be expensive? It would be a shame to ban that
outright...

> > The one that doesn't work doesn't because it wasn't obvious to me how to
> > subclass widgets -- I was getting whinges from validate-superclass...
> 
> Subclassing of widgets is not yet possible, but I am planning to
> implement this (which was one of the main reasons why I decided to make
> use of the MOP) when the main bindings are done.
>  
> > I haven't looked at things for a while -- do the bindings run with 2.0?
> 
> Yes, at least 2.0.0 is required. A lot of bindings is still missing but
> I am working on it, and hope have make an alpha release in the near
> future.

Great!

I've attached a (small) example file to this message that I hope would
also qualify as an example.  I guess that list-stores are among the
missing objects, which is why I've used a combo here; feel free to make
any use of the code you wish (not that I think it has much value beyond
simple pedagogy... :)

Cheers,

Christophe
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