Re: gtk_widget_get_allocation

[Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere teaser fr>]

On 04/17/2009 09:02 PM, Cody Russell wrote:
> This is rather old, but it never came up again after this so I'd like to
> see what thoughts are about how to implement this in C.  It was in 2.13
> but removed before 2.14 because of disagreement, but I can't find any
> public record of the disagreement in gtk-devel-list.  Can anyone comment
> on what was not liked, or how a better implementation could be made?

It should be noted that this one was a major showstopper for me to build 
AbiWord with GSEAL enabled. And the more we wait to have this implement, 
the more it will be a problem.
Currently some "basic" accessor (gtk_widget_get_window() for example) 
are only in Gtk 2.14. This is already a big issue to write code that 
work with GSEAL and still work with earlier version of Gtk. Gtk 2.14 is 
still not that common even more on "Enterprise" distributions.

I know there are some hack that can be done (been there, done that), but 
still. And today everything that touch "flags" or "allocation" is a no go.


Hub