Re: C vs C++ for GTK

[Benoît Dejean <benoit placenet org>]

Le lundi 26 novembre 2007 à 08:39 +0000, Neil Bird a écrit :
> Around about 25/11/07 12:31, Benoît Dejean typed ...
> > I've switched gnome-system-monitor to C++ and i'm very happy with it.
> 
>    Just out of interest, did you choose GTKmm or C++ with vanilla GTK+?

As i didn't start from scratch, that's still a lot of GTk+.

>    I'm looking at doing some GTK from C++ (I've previously only really used 
> GTK+ from C), and on the odd occasion I've dipped into GTKmm projects, I've 
> been worried about what looked like the obfuscation of the GTK innards 
> which, although arguably necessary to give a C++ methodology to the 
> proceedings, made it very difficult to pin down a [seeming] GTK/GTKmm bug 
> (which I never did, in fact).

That's not my experience. I spend hours debugging gtk stuff because C is
not typesafe or because i freed the wrong thing at the wrong time.

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Benoît Dejean
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