Re: gtk2-perl / easily accessing objects properties

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Goran Thyni <goran kirra net> writes:

> Guillaume,
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:03:36PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > During an irc talk with Manish Singh, he suggested the following
> > idea (which appears nice to me).
> > For each object property, instead of either using the generic
> >
> >         $obj->set(property_name, property_value)
>
> That name is already taken by a similar method:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-the-base-object-type.html#g-object-set
> And those are already implemented by you a few day ago :-)
> The above exampel should work with your $object->set().

Yes yes, it does work. The point was that it's more short and
straightforward for users to do:

$window->{sensitive} = 1;

rather than:

$window->set('sensitive', 1);
 
> > or even manually implementing in our classes accessors to have:
> >
> >         $window->set_allow_shrink(1)
>
> I did this but used:
> GET: $window->allow_shrink;
> SET: $window->allow_shrink($flag);
> which is shorter and cleaner.

Yes you're right. I was more thinking of set_sensitive and the
like functions, sorry.
 
> > we could change our perl objects so that hash access would be
> > generic wrappers to automatically call set_property with the
> > right property name and value, giving the following use:
> >         $obj->{sensitive} = 1
> needs a tie or a copy, 

yep.

> which slows down start time even if we don't use it

do you think the slowdown is measurable? (I haven't made tests
and haven't got significant experience on that topic)


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