Re: [gtkmm] The role of glibmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 22:43, SilvioCVdeAlmeida wrote:
> While looking for the starting point for a new project, I run
> into glib's Keyed Data Lists, which should be quite suitable for
> my purpose.
> 
> Unfortunatelly, on glibmm's docs I just found a small subset of
> glib's funcionality. Is it another gap in the docs?

glib generally doesn't wrap things that are already present in Standard
C++, such as basic data structures.

> At first glance I think it should easy to build C++ wrappers
> for, say, Keyed Data Lists, but I think it should be too
> dificult none of yours have thought about doing that for the
> entire library.

I don't think anybody has tried it, and I don't even know what a glib
"Keyed Data List" is. It sounds a bit like a std::map<>.

Do try to add it to glibmm if you think it's useful. Ask on this list if
you need extra help. Here are some patch instructions:
http://www.gtkmm.org/bugs.shtml

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