Re: cleaning up the "line_width" string constant

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 19.11.2008 07:50, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attaching a patch that converts "line_width" to
> PROP_STDNAME_LINE_WIDTH etc. I had started converting such constants
> to macros a long time ago, this fixes some newly introduced usage of
> "line_width".
Thanks, applied.

> On a related note, I was thinking of making DiaObject a derived class
> of GObject. This will allow us to use the support provided by Glib for
> properties, potentially removing a lot of _get() and _set() code from
> Dia. 
Although I thought a bit of converting DiaObject to GObject usage myself, I 
fail to see this particular benefit. Where is the "lot of _get() and _set() 
code" you think we can remove?

> With that, we might possibly eliminate all these constants, since
> the GObject framework has some built-in checks for property names and
> types.
Would be interesting how to do this while maintaining compatibility to 
exisiting diagram files.

        Hans

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