Re: More adventures with subclassing

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 26.07.2012 10:10, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On 25 July 2012 20:11, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey ratcliffe gmail com> wrote:
> > It seems that in subclassed a widget, any properties assigned in
> > ->new() are not available in INIT_INSTANCE.
>
> yes, it's been like that for ever. INIT_INSTANCE is meant to be used
> to initialize the instance; you want a CONSTRUCTED sub, which is
> available in C but I never remember if it was added to perl-Glib.

Unfortunately, we don't have support for the 'constructor' or the 
'constructed' vfuncs.  See 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573493> for a discussion of 
the difficulties.