Re: Deriving from GObject in C++

[gnu <gnu 0x1b04 eu>]

Thanks for your reply. I think the discussion accidently left the list.
The issue has been solved, here are the relevant parts for reference:

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Subject: Re: Deriving from GObject in C++
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 17:06:00 +0000
From: gnu <gnu 0x1b04 eu>
To: p sun fun gmail com

Alright, so I will do this in C then. Thank you.

p sun fun gmail com:
> I think you are mixing multiple things here. If you want to create your
> widget and use them via GIR you should do this in C. You can make your
> own widget from scratch using C++ as descrived here:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-custom-widgets.html.en
> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 15:59 +0000, gnu wrote:
> > p sun fun gmail com:
> > > If you want to create a widget from scratch that is a different
> > > story.
> >
> > Yep, that is what I want. Like this
> > https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/howto-gobject.html
> > but in C++. I hoped that this can be done directly in C++ too, or at
> > least partially, by deriving from a certain GTKmm class to get a
> > basic
> > implementation running and then to extent the interface with
> > *completely
> > new* virtual functions, creating a custom widget, but one that would
> > be
> > usable from C and possibly other languages through GIR support as
> > well.