Re: [gtk-list] GTK development question

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, John Looney wrote:

>  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).

(Even though it is probably more efficient than going through the list
and comparing ;-)

gtk_widget_new() and gtk_widget_set() are what you want. It doesn't gain
you any backwards compatibility though - you just encounter problems with
missing args at runtime instead of compile time.

-- Elliot
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