GTK development question

[John Looney <John Looney hos horizon ie>]

I was playing with gtk 0.99.12 for a while, and then upgraded to 1.0.4.

 I noticed that a few of my programs failed to compile - notably anything
written using the old version of the status bar function calls.

 Motif, and AmigaDOS used a nice feature, taglists, to get away from these
problems. The idea was, that if you wanted to create or change a widget,
you pass it a variable number of args, like so:

 widget_change(widget, 
               keyword, value,
               keyword, value,
               NULL);

 widget_create(widget, type, parent,
               keyword, value,
               keyword, value,
               NULL);

 Are there any plans to allow GTK to make use of this oh-so-useful feature
? It's very very nice, where painless & efficent coding and backward
compatibility is considered a bonus. I'm still getting used to the idea of
a separate function call for each feature of a widget (and don't like it
that much).

Kate

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    We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light."

John "Kate" Looney, Horizon Open Systems. Sun Microsystems distributor and 
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