Thread: [cxx-gtk-utils-general] wrapping widgets?

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[cxx-gtk-utils-general] wrapping widgets?

From: Andy T. <at...@at...> - 2015-12-02 20:59:51

Hi, just curious if there is any plan to wrap gtk+ widgets in C++?  Or
ideally wrap gtk+ objects as C++ objects, via C++ templates...

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Re: [cxx-gtk-utils-general] wrapping widgets?

From: Chris V. <ch...@cv...> - 2015-12-03 11:25:00

On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:59:43 -0800
Andy Tai <at...@at...> wrote:
> Hi, just curious if there is any plan to wrap gtk+ widgets in C++?  Or
> ideally wrap gtk+ objects as C++ objects, via C++ templates...

Hi Andy,

Not really.  The wrapping for GTK+ widgets is provided by
Cgu::MainWidgetBase and Cgu::GobjHandle.  These are really just objects
to handle GObject (or GtkWidget) lifetimes for RAII purposes, so are
not really a wrapper in the traditional sense: to operate on them you
use the native GTK+ functions.

gtkmm provides the kind of wrapping that you may be after (although it
struggles with thread safety).

Chris