Re: Serialization [gtk-list] (was: Re: GTK questions)

[David Orme <david coconut-palm-software com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, David Orme wrote:
> >
> > Another (somewhat related) question: is there an easy way to clone a GTK
> > object.  ie: the equivalent of a C++ copy constructor?
> >
>
> Nope, there's no way at all. It might be nice if there were, but...
> You could write your own copy constructors for individual objects of
> course. :-)

I want to create a serialization library (like Java's java.io.serializable or
Python's pickles) for GTK objects.  It seems like the best I can do is to
create my own object inheriting from GtkObject and make everything that
inherits from that serializable.

It seems you'd need:

1) a way to register a GTK type that you see in a data stream even if it
hasn't been used in the app yet.
2) a convention that all serializable objects must use GTK arguments for their
properties.
3) a way to construct a new object given its type name

Does this sound right?

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