Re: GtkAllocation accessor

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:17 +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> OK, I shouldn't have mentioned memory. Trying again.
> 
> Why was
> 
>   void gtk_widget_get_allocation(GtkWidget *widget, GtkAllocation *allocation)
> 
> chosen, rather than
> 
>   GtkAllocation *gtk_widget_get_allocation(GtkWidget *widget)
> 
> ?

because you always want a copy of the allocation, to avoid third party
code messing up with internal state of the widget.

and because it matches other accessors for structures in GLib and GTK+.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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