Re: GObject question.

["Alexandre Moreira" <alexandream gmail com>]

On 6/7/07, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:17:42PM -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> >
> > So, just to check if I understand it right. What you're saying is that
> > the best approach would be to have something like (in my file buffer
> > case) a FileBuffer class which I could do something like:
> >
> > g_object_new(X_TYPE_FILE_BUFFER, /*any properties here*/ NULL);
> >
> > and only then load the resource as in something like
> >
> > x_file_buffer_load_from_file(file_name, &error);
> >
> > ... is that kind of thing you were saying or am I missing something ?
>
> You can do it this way, but you can do it a way more
> resembling your original description too.  I don't know what
> your intended error reporting interface for other I/O errors
> looks like, but if it can be querried after the fact, i.e.
> it maintains something like errno, then
>
>   buf = g_object_new(X_TYPE_FILE_BUFFER, "filename", "foo.txt", NULL);
>   if (!buf) {
>     ...
>   }
>
> can be done completely equivalently
>
>   buf = g_object_new(X_TYPE_FILE_BUFFER, "filename", "foo.txt", NULL);
>   if (x_file_buffer_error(buf)) {
>     ...
>     g_object_unref(buf);
>   }
>
> If not, the x_file_buffer_load_from_file() approach with
> immediate error reporting makes more sense.

Thanks, I'll keep both ideas in mind. Although for this case the
GError based one will make more sense.

Thanks again,
Alexandre Moreira.

> Yeti
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