Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gtk Tree Row Reference missing?

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Sun, 2005-11-12 at 15:17 +0000, Joao Victor wrote:
> Is TreeRowReference recommended by Gtk developers?

My personal take on this is that is doesn't matter what the GTK
developers recommend or don't recommend.

There is always going to be an impedance mismatch between Java and C
even though Glib and GTK are somewhat object based. And although we do
our best to provide underlying functionality, there is nothing that says
we have to slavishly follow what they're doing down there - theirs is,
after all, just another under-resourced open source project like ours
and in any case there are large areas of cruft and historical baggage
that we can occasionally avoid.

[DataColumn and its subclasses come to mind - when mh implemented the
TreeView stuff he used different names than the underlying bits in GTK.
For the better IMHO - he took the chance to slightly increase clarity]

AfC
Sydney