[gtkmm] Re: Glade-2, libgtkmm, Xml::create, callbacks

[Andreas Rottmann <a rottmann gmx at>]

Stephan Puchegger <puchs ap univie ac at> writes:

> I think (but I am not sure), that the situation is the following:
> libglademm can't do the same thing in C++ as libglade does in C due to the
> name-mangling of the C++ compiler (as opposed to no name mangling in C).
> That is why libglade can find the names of the callbacks in a C program
> (although it is a runtime mechanism). Libglademm can't do the same thing
> in C++ since it does not know what the mangled names look like.
>
> I hope, that my info is correct.
>
Mostly; however, the problem is more difficult (name mangling could be
worked around), because C++ doesn't only have static functions, but
also methods.

Andy
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