Re: ComboBoxText and constructor/new issues

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:52 -0700, Robert Park wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Mathieu Bridon
> <bochecha fedoraproject org> wrote:
> > I have been trying to use a Gtk.ComboBoxText and something seems weird
> > to me: if I create the combobox with Gtk.ComboBoxText.new(), everything
> > works as expected, but if I create it with Gtk.ComboBoxText(), the class
> > seems to be in a state where lots of things will not work afterwards.
> 
> I am not entirely certain, but I think I read somewhere that when
> you're using the new introspection bindings in Python, you are
> expected to just always use the .new() constructor for all objects.
> Invoking the class name directly is not a supported method of
> constructing objects.

This can't be correct. I have a few projects using pygobject now and
never use GtkFooBarClass.new [1]

John

[1] Well maybe sometimes, in cases where the new constructor is clearly
specially targeted, Pixbuf.new_from_path/file etc