Re: What is GINT_TO_POINTER(6) intended for?

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Thu, Jul 04, 2002, à 11:07:23AM -0300, Dolores Alia de Saravia a écrit:


> And remembering my experience to designe new shapes and this new one 
> with an object I am thinking of proposing an "example sheet" with 
> comented ources to be looked at for people who want to extend 
> capabilities of Dia without having to become an expert (just "by 
> imitation ...."). For example, one thing I would add is a "copy" of a 
> user .dia directory ...
>
> Do yoy think this could be useful? I would help with this, but someone 
> should read my coments on the sources as I am not an expert.
 
I think this would definitely be useful! 

I see you are now gaining a lot of expertise in objects writing; still, you
are not too far away from the learning curve. This places you in an ideal
position to write a tutorial: you know where the roadblocks are, and you
know what the goal looks like.
   
> By the way, in the user .dia directory there is an "objects" 
> subdirectory.
> Can we put objects there without having to "touch" the system 
> "objects",
> "lib" and "app"  subdirectories?  (I  have not figure out how to do it)

in theory, yes. But you know that while in theory, theory and practice
match, in practice, they don't. 

        -- Cyrille

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Grumpf.