Re: dialog enhancements

[Guillaume Laurent <glaurent worldnet fr>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> > what's the va_list variant for? are there really going to be functions
> > that carry on the label list varargs thingy, but are too sophisticated
> > to call gtk_dialog_append_button() on their own then? ;)
> > this tastes like a bunch of the cruft which went into GnomeDialog,
> > that tries to provide some pretend-to-be-convenience functions for
> > language bindings, where language bindings better make sure to cook up
> > their language-specific convenience on their own and use normal gtk
> > interfaces to set things up.
> > 
> 
> OK, just trying to make the bindings easier. 

I agree with Tim here. varargs stuff is usually really painful because
it lacks typesafety, and you can only pass plain old C types through
it. Most of the time we prefer having access to the lower-level funcs
and building our own convenience stuff over these.

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						Guillaume