Re: what's the best way to handle variables and objects?

[Andreas Stricker <andreas stricker fela ch>]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Yes.  It depends on your application.  Some people will subclass a
> GObject and add the window object plus all of the other widgets as
> aggregates.  If you are feeling more daring you can subclass your main
> window where your app class would inherit from GtkWindow.  However if
> you do not want to get into the intricacies of GObject inheritance
> simply creating a struct would be fine:

I agree.

Usually it don't make sense to create a whole GObject descendant just
to pass some data. On the other hand it really make sense if we want
to use OOP/GObject mechanisms like subclassing, (virtual) methods and
reference counting. It depends on the complexity of the application.

Cheers,
Andy