Re: GTK_FLOATING broken in 2.9?

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
>> In GTK+ 2.9, GTK_FLOATING is deprecated and README.in states that it can
>> no longer be used to detect floating objects. I hope nobody is using
>> that. I assume that effort was made to avoid this ABI breakage.
>>
>> But does this also mean that setting GTK_FLOATING has no effect with
>> 2.9?
>
> right, since the floating flag is stored in GObject in 2.9, so altering
> the GtkObject won't have any effect.

Eek. This is where we discover who else uses that.

>> We do use this in gtkmm. GTK+ 2.9 has g_object_force_floating(),
>> but I don't know of an equivalent that I can start using in gtkmm 2.8
>> now before GTK+ 2.9 is widely available.
>
> gtkmm 2.8 depends on glib/gtk 2.8, right? then you don't have
> g_object_force_floating() there. would it be of any help to you
> if glib 2.8 had g_object_force_floating() already (whether function
> or not)?

Yes, or something in GTK+. Though it would be an act of desparation.

Murray Cumming
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