Re: Unable to instantiate GtkTreeModelSort with g_object_new.

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 18 Nov 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Jeff Franks <jcf tpg com au> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've noticed that you can't instantiate GtkTreeModelSort with
> > g_object_new as there is no way the set the child_model. This wouldn't
> > be an problem if the gtk_tree_model_sort_set_model() function declared
> > in gtktreemodelsort.c were exported.
> 
>  g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_TREE_MODEL_SORT, "model", model, NULL);
> 
> The reason that there is no set_model() is that the model can't
> be changed after construction... there would be lots of problems
> if you had a ModelSort added to a tree view and then changed
> the model of the ModelSort.

then there needs to be a ::model property that is flagged as
CONSTRUCT_ONLY.

> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen

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