Re: [orbitcpp-list] Re: cpp branch: CORBA_Object struct hidden?

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 14:05, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 19:55, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Is there any generic way to associate data with a CORBA_Object, like
> > g_object_set_data()? As far as I can tell CORBA_Object doesn't inherit
> > from GObject. A void* cpp_wrapper field should be enough for us, but
> > this might be a generic problem for other languages too.
> 
> 	Currently no - it should be somewhat easy to add one if you wish; but
> as soon as you do that you need to do more, hook the finalization etc.
> etc.
> 
> 	Ultimately it'd be best to hook the CORBA_Object construction process
> and allow people to 'inherit' from the CORBA_Object structure in the
> normal C fashion - then you can add what you like, and clobber the
> lifecycle pointers at the same time ;-)
> 
> 	How does that sound ?

That'd be great, but it doesn't sound like something that I could
implement. And didn't you want to hide the CORBA_Object structure?

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