Re: when should I create child objects?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 10:22 +0200, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:

> What I do is that I provide my own new and call the parent's new
> first. I then build my properties there.
>
> sub new {
>   my $class = shift;
>   my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_);
>   $self->set_XXX($xxx);
>   return $self;
> }
>
> I'm wondering if there's a better way too.

GObject provides the "constructed" virtual function, which is called
after the object instance has been fully constructed - that is after the
instance has been initialized and the constructor properties have been
applied.

this is currently missing from Glib::Object, but I guess a patch would
be welcome.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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