Re: More wrapping fun

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 20:52 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I've managed to narrow down this problem.  And I'm at a loss for
> words.
> 
> Basically, after the model gets set on a view, the view gets notified
> when any Item is created in the model so that the View can emit an
> item_view_created signal. 
> 
> Guess what. It looks like when the signal gets emitted, it finishes
> instantiating the object for the cast in the signal handler.  So, by
> the time that things return to my constructor in the call to create(),
> the object has been fully instantiated. 

So a second wrap() should just return the existing object. I doubt that
a signal handler is running while wrap() is running.

> Now. The question is, how do I make things work despite this?
> 
> I've been thinking about removing the GObject* constructor from the
> ItemSimple (the base class) and instead making the wrap method call
> goo_item_"x"_new, and returning a Glib::RefPtr that wraps the return
> of new. 

I'm sure that's not necessary. I'd like to look at this, but I don't
have time right now. Can you work around it for now, leaving a TODO
somewhere in the code?

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