Re: bonobo and interface inheritance issue

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:

> BonoboParentClass implements IDLinterface
> BonoboChildClass implements extendedIDLinterface
> 
> where the IDL relationship is:
> 
>   interface extendedIDLinterface : IDLinterface { ... };
> 
> Now, since CORBA is just about interfaces, a CORBA object doesn't
> inherit any implementation.  But it seems in bonobo that
> implementations *are* inherited

You don't have to inherit your extendedInterface implementation from a
basicInterface implementaiton.

>, and in fact since GObject does not
> (yet??) support overriding of fps in the vtable

Of course it does, if you use virtual methods (function pointers to 
the virtual methods are stored in the class structures)

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