Re: Text Attribute API revisions

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Hmmm, why not define:

typedef struct _attribute
        {
        gchar *name;
        gchar *value;
        } attribute;

And then return a GList of these as an attribute set.  Might be a little 
lighter weight than creating an AttributeSet object.

Marc

At 11:48 AM 5/29/2001 +0100, Brian Cameron wrote:

> Bill:
>
> > I agree, and think you're right about "ref_attribute_bounds" except 
> that the
> > semantics are confusing then (sounds like the "attribute bounds" are 
> getting
> > referenced) - perhaps call it
> >
> > atk_text_ref_run_attributes ()
> >
> > [meaning, return a reference to the attributes over a run (the run bounds
> > being returned in the two "out" parameters) ]
>
> Sounds good.  By the way, I'm now thinking that glib keyed data lists
> aren't so useful.  the "foreach" function wants you to pass in a function
> it calls for each element.  This seems cumbersome.
>
> The glib hash and dataset suffer from the same problem.  I think it might
> be necessary for us to define our own AtkAttributeSet object.
>
> Ah well.
>
> Brian
>
>
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