Re: [Vala] panel_applet_construct not found.

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Yu,

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:05 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> vala will try to call panel_applet_construct from my_applet_construct
> which doesn't exist.
>
> I had a short look into gtk+-2.0.vapi. There are a lot of such empty
> parameter constructors which implies some difficult in subclassing
> widgets.
> Does a [CCode] tag need to be invented to handle the non-existing
> Applet()s or should we remove them from all .vapi files if no _construct
> exists?

There already is an attribute and vapigen automatically inserts it for
generated bindings:
        [CCode (has_construct_function = false)]

> I don't quite like the name of _construct, since we already have a
> 'construct' block in vala, which is mapped to GObject->constructor.

The C _construct function gets generated to support the new GObject
construction scheme with constructor chain-up. As this is an alternative
to the `construct' blocks, we should not need to worry about the name
clash here.

Jürg