Re: [gtk-list] Re: Method to query toggle button state?

[Jimmie Mayfield <mayfield sackheads org>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:45:18AM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Jimmie Mayfield <mayfield@sackheads.org> writes:
> 
> > That was precisely the point of my post.  IME, it's not a good
> > design for programs to have to access internal widget members
> > directly.  In OO, you could say this is defeating the object's
> > encapsulation.
> 
> Not if .active is a public member of the object.  Or am I missing a
> subtler point?

No, you're quite correct.  The trick, since GTK is a 'C' entity,
is determining which members are part of the public interface and 
which are private.  The header files don't seem to indicate this.
I had simply assumed that all data members were "private".


Jimmie

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