Re: goocanvasmm: Item::get_items_at API

[Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org>]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 21:50 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:45 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > I don't really understand the need to pass the found_items parameter
> > to the child items in the first place.  Why does the child item need
> > to know which of its parent items were already found at the given
> > coordinate?  In my opinion, it would be better just to leave that
> > parameter out, and just return a GList* of items found at your level
> > or below, Then the parent would be responsible for combining these all
> > together and returning that to its parent.   Or maybe a totally
> > different approach would be better...
> 
> If that's possible, that would seem simpler. Could you ask on the
> goocanvas list?
> 

Yes, I should, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.  I will try to
write up something comprehensible soon.  it would be much easier if
goocanvas was hosted on gnome servers so I could just file a bug in
bugzilla...

-- 
Jonner