Re: Programming style

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Wallace Owen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:21 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I just wanted to point out that the user data argument is usable and
> > efficient (since nobody had mentioned that yet).
> >
> > Ofcourse there are cases where it isn't convenient to use the user_data;
> > I might as well also note that, with the cost of a slight overhead;
> > g_object_set_data (); is often usefull for this type of inconvenience.
>
>
> gtk_object_set_user_data() is deprecated, so we're left with
tristan mentioned g_object_set_data()
> g_object_set_data(), which will involve a string lookup.
and if the string lookup is concerning you there is g_object_set_qdata() where 
you pre-allocate the GQuark from the string and use that.

Stefan