g_object_new

[Andy Chambers <achambers home googlemail com>]

Hi,

I'm working on one of the lisp bindings to gtk and from reading the
docs, it looks like we should
be able to construct instances of all gtk types using just
g_object_new.  Is that correct in
principle?

If that is true, I need a way to get a GType dynamically.  The
function g_type_from_name looks
like it might do the job but I think the type needs to have been
initialized by creating an
instance first.  Is there any other way to initialize a type so that I
don't have to create an instance?
(since that's what I'm trying to avoid by using g_object_new).

Many Thanks,
Andy