Re: adding deps to libgnomecanvas

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Alex Larsson wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> > As I said in private mail, in the case of GnomeCanvas, we don't need any 
> > widget construction routines specific to the canvas (the generic 
> > construction routine is used).  Because libglade can now handle 
> > arbitrary widget types that have been registered with the type system, a 
> > call to gnome_canvas_get_type() will be sufficient to construct canvas 
> > widgets.
>
> Do we really have to make GnomeCanvas depend on libglade? Could we not 
> just add gnome_register_type_name() somewhere, and call
>
> gnome_register_type_name ("GnomeCanvas", gnome_canvas_get_type); 
>
> In libgnomecanvas. This would store the typename in a table for libglade 
> to look up.
>
> I'm pretty ignorant of this issue, please flame me if i'm totally on 
> crack.
Just putting the following somewhere:
 gnome_canvas_get_type();

is sufficient for libglade.  That call is probably about as expensive as 
a gnome_register_type_name() call would be.  Also note that 
libgnomecanvas doesn't depend on any of the gnome libraries :)

James.

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