Re: [gtkmm] User Data

[Daniel Elstner <daniel elstner gmx net>]

Am Mon, 2002-11-18 um 14.32 schrieb Murray Cumming:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 14:28, Leandro Fanzone wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I wasn't clear about what I intended to do. I have a set of
> > widgets, and I used the user data to associate extra info to those
> > widgets, not only to the list. I was previously using
> > get/set_user_data from Gtk::Object, but now I see it's commented out.
> > Though I could use the gtk+ method instead, I just wanted to know why
> > gtkmm did not implement it, just in case there's something I must be
> > aware of (like a new way of handling user data).
> 
> Because:
> - It's not type-safe.
> - I don't think it's even used much in GTK+.
> - A std::map<> would probably do a better job in C++, for instance.

Yes.  And if you really need it use Glib::Object::set_data().

--Daniel