RE: (GObject) What are "properties"?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> Murray Cumming Comneon com writes:
> 
> > 4) don't mess with ABI. You can add a property without 
> worrying about 
> > changing the size of the struct.
> 
> Sorry, but this is not true. The property doesn't provide a 
> place to store the value, it only provides a way to get and 
> set the value in a general fashion.

Yes, of course. Sorry.

> For some nice things you can do based on properties, take a 
> look at the GimpConfigInterface:
>   http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/app/app-config-interface.html
> GIMP-1.3 uses this for all things that need to have its state 
> stored in config files. There's also a set of widgets that 
> can be used as views on object properties:
>   http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/app/app-gimppropwidgets.html
> In the long run we plan to move this functionality out of the 
> GIMP core into a separate library.

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