Re: Defining virtual methods with gobject

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 2011-06-23 at 16:22, Tristin Celestin wrote:
> 1. Is it customary to make the prototype of the default implementation of
> a virtual method available in the header file of a gobject?

no, not really.

what's customary is adding a public function for calling the virtual
one, doing type checks and NULL checks if the virtual has no default
implementation, or has an optional implementation.

> 2. How does one know if a method is pure virtual if only the header file can be viewed,
> since the NULL assignment occurs in the init method implementation?

you have to specify it in the documentation of your class.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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