Re: Preliminary design for libmailcheck- comments appreciated

[Havoc Pennington <hp Mcs Net>]

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> Actually, I was thinking it could be useful to have something inheriting from
> GtkObject that wraps the IDL for mail checking, so that you could actually
> have a Gtk signal when new mail arrives (with parameters indicating which
> mailbox, perhaps). The Gtk signal abstraction provides many useful features
> above just calling a notify function, and inheriting from GtkObject should
> make the interface easier to wrap for bindings for other languages.
> 

You need the notify() thing between the two CORBA objects, is all I meant
to say. Having the GtkObject as sugar around the CORBA is a great idea.

Havoc