Re: GdkRectangle, again

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

"muppet" <scott asofyet org> writes:

> old gtk-perl treated GdkRectangle as a 4-element list in perl.  this made it
> very easy to manipulate the contents of the rectangle in perl, and i switched
> to this because dealing with a boxed type from perl via member accessor
> functions is clumsy.

I personally favored the orthogonality of methods in gtk2-perl,
and that's why we are (were?) using GdkRectangle like all other
Boxed types, with methods to access members. E.g.:

  $pixmap->draw_rectangle ($gc, TRUE,
                           $update_rect->x,
                           $update_rect->y,
                           $update_rect->width,
                           $update_rect->height);

E.g. even more readable than hash ref thing. There's also
->values so that you can do things like:

my (undef, undef, $w, $h) = $update_rect->values;


Just my personal point of view, of course.

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/