Re: How to install a new "property"?

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Roger Leigh wrote:

> dzho002 <zhou_dx yahoo com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > how I can install/register the new property (do I need do that at
> > all?) Is the function, PropertyBase::install_property, for this
> > purpose?
> >    
>
> I think you want to firstly install the property.  You want
> g_object_class_install_property() for that (in C) or add a private
> Glib::Property member to your class (in addition to the PropertyProxy,
> which proxies it).
>
> I'm not totally sure of how this should be handled in C++.  If it's
> the same as C, you should override the set_property() and get_property
> methods of Glib::ObjectBase, but these aren't virtual...
>  
class MyClass : public Glib::Object
{
...
public:
   Glib::PropertyProxy<void *> property_data() {return 
property_data_.get_proxy(); }
private:
   Glib::Property<void *> property_data_;
...
};

MyClass::MyClass() :
...
property_data_( *this, "data", (void *)0 ),
...
{
...
}