Re: [gtkmm] Actions / UIManager and OO programming style

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 02:52 +0200, Christer Palm wrote:
> Christer Palm wrote:
> > Murray Cumming wrote:
> >>
> >> There are no public constructors because they are meant to be used via
> >> RefPtr. There are protected constructors, so you can derive. If you need
> >> an extra constructor then I would be happy to look at a patch.
> >>
> > 
> > I looked at the protected constructor but it didn't look too useful at 
> > the "user" level, neither is it documented [== a big warning sign saying 
> > "this is internal stuff - use at your own risk"]. I will spend some more 
> > time with it and see if I can make anything useful out of it, though.
> > 
> 
> OK - I've been playing around trying to derive from Gtk::Action using 
> the Action(const Glib::ConstructParams& construct_params) constructor, 

No, that's not something that you should try to use - it's only for
internal use.

> but I can't figure how to do it properly. No wonder really, since I 
> can't find a single line of documentation for that stuff.
> 
> Would it be possible for someone to provide me with a simple example of 
> how this is properly done?

How about you try to do it and tell us what problems you have?