Re: GtkMediaPlayer widget

[Ryan Gammon <rgammon real com>]

It's got one pros and many cons:

I like it because it is, technically speaking, an interface (unless gtk 
was to implement it with a simple pixbuf animated gif player, which I'm 
all for).

I don't like it because the nuances are wrong. The Gtk object hierarchy 
would have GtkMediaInterface listed somewhere above GObject, I believe.

Developers would be confused. They would not get the impression that 
media widgets are first class citizens in gtk.

Developers would want to see the media widget deriving from GtkWidget 
like all their other widgets.

iain wrote:

> the value returned from gst_player_new or helix_player_new or whatever
> would derive from GtkWidget, but the GtkMediaInterface is simply and
> interface that the GtkWidget implements, and interfaces derive from
> GInterface, not GtkWidget. Check out gtkeditable.c (although that might
> not be the easiest interface in the world to understand, its the only
> one I can think of at the moment)
>
> iain
>  

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Ryan Gammon
rgammon real com
Developer for Helix Player
https://player.helixcommunity.org