Re: Cancel construction of GObject

[Jannis Pohlmann <jannis xfce org>]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:14:39 +0100
Jaroslav ÅmÃd <jardasmid gmail com> wrote:

> Is it possible to "cancel" construction in gobject-derived class?
>
> Lets say I have GMyObject derived from GObject. In its init function
> I need to spawn a thread. When that fails, I would like to cancel 
> construction of the object (so that gobjectclass' finalize function 
> would be called on the object and g_object_new would return
> null-pointer).

Have a look at the GInitable and GAsyncInitable interfaces.

  - Jannis