Interaction between GTK+ and C++

["Brian Hanley" <brian hanley flextrade com>]

Hi,

Has anyone tried to wrap GTK+ in C++ without using GTKmm?
That is, making calls to GTK?s C-language API from C++ objects?
If so, has anyone documented the paradigms/techniques/gotchas,
or published sample code?

Specifically, how does one manage the lifespan of interdependent
widgets and C++ objects? Is it feasible to have both event-driven
GTK callbacks which reference C++ objects and externally-driven
calls to the C++ objects which reference these same widgets?
How does one manage the lifespan of such objects and widgets?

For example, an instance "obj" of class "MyWrapper" contains
a pointer to a widget "widg", and the address of "obj" has
been passed as a user-data argument to a GTK signal handler
for "widg".

How might one manage the lifespans of "obj" and "widg" given
that someone could both (i) call "delete" on "obj", and
(ii) call "gtk_widget_destroy" on "widg"?

Is it just a bad idea to try to mix event-driven code with
external triggers?

Any comments/feedback you might have would be very much appreciated.

Brian

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 Brian Hanley, Software Developer
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