subclassing Gnome2::Canvas::Text objects

[James Muir <hemlock vtlink net>]

Hi Everybody,

I see in the FAQ that subclassing Gtk2 widgets is pretty straight 
forward, but I want to subclass Gnome2::Canvas::Text. I've created a 
subclass called EllipsisText that simply overrides the "text" method, 
appending an ellipsis (...) to the text argument. 

However when I try something like this:

local $ellipsisText = Gnome2::Canvas::Item->new($root, 'EllipsisText', 
x=>10, y=>10, fill_color=>'black',    
                                                                      
           anchor=>'GTK_ANCHOR_NW', text=$text);

I am met with the following error:

"EllipsisText is not registered with gperl as an object type blah blah blah"

Is what I am trying to do possible?

-James