Re: [Vala] GObject Extensions

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:29 -0300, Matías De la Puente wrote:
> 2008/7/17 Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>:
>         Hi Matias,
>         
>         1. Gdk.Window isn't a GObject.
>
> Gdk.Window IS a GObject, you can see this in
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Windows.html#GdkWindow

Thanks for correcting me. 
> Object Hierarchy
> GObject
>    +----GdkDrawable
>          +----GdkWindow
>
>
>
>         
>         2. I think once the class definition is closed, you can't
>         extend it, but
>
> I  agree with you that once the class definition is closed we can't
> extend it. But in this case the gtkglext functions extend the
> GdkWindow object to bring OpenGL capabilities to some GObjects.
>
>
> I post this to make a more clean code in vala. The best solution is
> that GTK implements OpenGL!!. I hope that in GTK 3.0 present this
> capability.
It seems that GTK 3.0 has the priority in sealing all data members than
adding new capabilities.

> Matias