Re: Why aren't all simple structs Boxed Types?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 17:58, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming) writes: 
> >
> > > So why are some structs (for instance, GtkTextIter) not Boxed Types,
> > > even though they seem to have a similar set of new/copy/free functions?
> > TextIter is a boxed type, look at gtk-boxed.defs.
>
> But I can't find a gtk_text_iter_get_type(), or any use of
> g_boxed_type_register_static() with TextIter.

There is a GTK_TYPE_TEXT_ITER global variable.  Generally you should be 
using the XXX_TYPE_* macros/global variables rather than the get_type() 
functions.  This way you won't care if you are doing a function call or 
looking at a constant/variable.

James.

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