gchar-char-GString

[author <millward Ms UManitoba CA>]

Is there a simple way to avoid having to constantly
cast between GTK types and POSIX/ANSI data types?
If you want to use POSIX/ANSI  C functions you have
to use the proper data types, but GTK has its own
proprietory data types.  Then there's GTK's string
manipulator functions which uses GString data type
which doesn't agree with any GTK functions I've seen yet.
Constantly casting!
Can anyone tell me how to get around this data type problem?