Re: [Fwd: Per class signals with GObject]

[Josh Green <jgreen users sourceforge net>]

On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 08:25, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Josh Green <jgreen users sourceforge net> writes: 
> > 1. There are typically several thousand objects in a sound font (Preset,
> > Instruments, Samples and Zones) and I support loading of multiple files.
> > So the amount of additional memory overhead for each GObject should be
> > minimized. Is the GObject class efficient enough for this purpose?
>
> I don't think so, no. I would use GObject for some sort of container
> class that contained lots of sounds fonts, maybe.

Okay, that makes sense. I kind of thought in that direction, but I
couldn't get out of the view of objectifying my sound fonts :)

> > 2. Is there a way to connect user signal handlers to an object's class?
>
> Nope. 

If there was just one GObject for all the sound fonts, I guess this
wouldn't really be necessary than. Thanks for the information, it helps
greatly.

> Havoc
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    Josh Green
    Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net)