Re: why do constructors return GtkWidget?

[Carlos Pereira <jose carlos pereira ist utl pt>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Emmanuel
> Touzery<emmanuel touzery free fr> wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >     
> [...]
>   
> > You know what I'm thinking... I think that this is from times where people
> > used to build GUIs in the code... When they were writing all the container
> > embedding and all, in C, building their dialogs. At that time that
> > convention surely helped, you were constantly adding widgets to containers
> > and so on. Today this is done in gtkbuilder and so what we have left is code
> > not doing so much embedding in code (though obviously it happens) but
> >     
>
> Yes I would say its a historical thing, and I certainly hope that using
> GtkBuilder can be the standard in the end (I guess we still have lots of
> ground to cover).
>   
Only over my dead body ;-)

Carlos
> Cheers,
>            -Tristan
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