Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK development question

[John Looney <John Looney hos horizon ie>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-)

 Hmm. There always was a XtVaSetArgs and an XtSetArgs - the Va being
"Variable". 

> 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.

 Yes, didn't think of that. If you could set almost everything meaningful
attribute with it, it would be smashing...only I can't seem to find much
documentation on what can be set like that, and what can't....

Kate

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