Re: Subclassing question

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 17:14 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> For use in configuration interface, I need to create Gtkmm objects, that
> will have new signals and new properties registered with the GObject
> type system, so I can use the by-name system from a configuration
> module.

What API is this?

> The objects will be derived either from Glib::Object or from some
> Gtk::Widget subclass. They won't need any extern "C" stuff except what
> their ancestor does.
> 
> Obviously I want to get my hands dirty with the C interface as little as
> possible. So I'd like to ask what functions from Glib::Class and perhaps
> other classes and whether (and how) I could use the gmmproc
> preprocessor.

Adding a PropertyProxy<> member to your C++ class will register a new
property with the underlying GObject. But we have no C++ API to register
new GObject signals. But you can use the C API for that.

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