Re: problem using pango ...

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 12:45 -0400, raespi wrote:
> Actually this->object is a Gtk::Widget.  I'm implementing a class
> hierarchy using the abstract factory pattern, which means that all
> widgets should be treated equal in this point where I request to
> change the widget's text style.  Can I only change widgets that
> inherit from Gtk::Bin ??

Plenty of people get confused by this. I don't like this part of the GTK
+ API either. For instance:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566945

In Glom, I have hidden the ugly dynamic casting, and some other
weirdness, in a utility method:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glom/tree/glom/utility_widgets/layoutwidgetbase.cc#n93


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