RE: [java-gnome-hackers] Debugging Native code

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

You can overload the constructor and make it private.

-Jeff

> I agree that it is a bad thing for About to not inherit from Dialog. 
> Again, my concern is that an unecessary (from About's point 
> of view, not
> unecessary for Dialog).  I'll look into this further to see if there's
> another solution.
> 
> I never ment the change to be perminant.  I did it while trying to get
> things to work, and wrote to you about it so you'd know what I was
> thinking.  I'll change the inheritance back if you haven't already.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 08:44, Jeffrey Morgan wrote:
> > It is very important that we maintain the same
> > object hierarchy that exists in the native libs.
> > If we don't, calls on parent methods will fail.
> > About must inherit from Dialog.  
> > 
> > -Jeff
> > 
> > > Since About extended Dialog, Dialog's empty parameter 
> constructor was
> > > run.  This constructor makes a native call which allocates 
> > > memory for a
> > > gtk dialog which is never used.  Maybe we don't care since it 
> > > should be
> > > cleaned up in the finalize event?  I changed About so 
> that it extends
> > > Window, but am not sure that this the *correct* answer.
> -- 
> Philip A. Chapman
>