Re: adding deps to libgnomecanvas

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Alex Larsson wrote:
>
> > Do we really have to make GnomeCanvas depend on libglade? Could we not
> > just add gnome_register_type_name() somewhere, and call
>
>        Not really as Tim says.
>
> > gnome_register_type_name ("GnomeCanvas", gnome_canvas_get_type);
>
>        Just a:
>
> void
> gnome_canvas_init (void)
> {
>        gnome_canvas_get_type ();
> }
>
>        Would do - but as everyone knows registering types you don't need
> is expensive, and init functions are evil :-) which is why the proposal is
> not very pleasant in general.  
Less expensive for gtk 2.0.  Only the get_type() routine is being 
executed.  The class_init() function is delayed until the first call to 
g_type_class_ref().  So all that is being registered is pointers to the 
init functions, and the inheritance heirachy of the type.

James.

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