Re: gchar-char-GString

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

author <millward Ms UManitoba CA> writes:

> 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?

Leave out the casts? We have:

 typedef int gint;
 typedef char gchar;
 typedef double gdouble;

And this will _always_ be the case. The GLib types are 
only aliases for the standard names (some people like
the consistency with guint, gint32, etc.)

[ Note that thiws doesn't apply to GString, which is not
  just a char *. To get a char * out of a GString, use
  g_string->str ]

Regards,
                                        Owen