Re: Post-init function?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Cody Russell <bratsche@gnome.org> writes:

> Hi rambokid and GTK hackers,
> 
> I want to GTK to have some sort of post-init function that gets called
> after the
> set_arg() loop is finished.  This would be very useful I think.  So
> gtk_object_new()
> would do something like:
> 
>          while (slist_arg)
>         {
>           gtk_object_arg_set (object, slist_arg->data,
> slist_info->data);
>           slist_arg = slist_arg->next;
>           slist_info = slist_info->next;
>         }
>       gtk_args_collect_cleanup (arg_list, info_list);
>     }
> 
>   if (object->postinit)
>      (* object->postinit) (object);
> 
>   if (!GTK_OBJECT_CONSTRUCTED (object))
>     gtk_object_default_construct (object);
>           
>   return object;
> }
> 
> 
> Is there any reason for this not to exist?  Since 2.0 is getting a new
> object
> system and everything, it seems like a good time to have this sort of
> feature
> added.

Tim seems to have anticipated you on this one. See:

 http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gtk-devel-list/2000-August/004521.html

Regards,
                                        Owen