Re: Gnomecanvas/TextItem question

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

muppet said:
> On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 01:18 AM, Chris Debenham - SSA Systems
> Engineer wrote:
>
> > $context = Gtk2::Pango::Context->new();
> > $context->load_font(Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->from_string("Sans
> > 24"));
>
> in fact, pango_context_new and pango_context_set_font_map are guarded
> in their headers by #ifdef PANGO_ENABLE_BACKEND --- they're meant to be
> used only by Pango backend implementations, and hence are not bound.
> the "new" you were picking up for Gtk2::Pango::Context actually comes
> from Glib::Object.

perhaps we should put a new that croaks with an appropriate msg in
Gtk2::Pango::Context::new (and other such pkgs) to prevent the inheritied,
invalid/useless new.

-rm