Re: why do constructors return GtkWidget?

[Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel touzery free fr>]

Hi,
> Whatever type is returned, you'll have to do lots of casts, so whatever
> convention is used, there's no avoiding that. And returning GtkWidget*
> is just the current convention.
> I personally would prefer correct types to be used in the API, just to
> show exactly what type to expect at runtime. But that's a separate
> issue.
>    
Thank you for the answer. If it doesn't make a technical difference I 
think returning the actual type would be much more useful, for 
documentation purposes. In the case of gtk_menu_shell_append() from the 
prototype you would think that it can take any GtkWidget and only the 
comment tells you that only GtkMenuItem* will do.

Well coming from object-oriented languages, this is all disappointing 
but that's the way it is. Maybe I'll give gtkmm a second thought though 
I'd prefer not to be "behind" bindings.

emmanuel