Re: [Vala] self-less delegates

["Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1 gmail com>]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> > Anyways, The new_method function does not take any parameters.
> > However, in trying to use "delegate" to create this callback, I found
> > that it always seems to add an argument, gpointer *self.  This makes
> > some sense for most callbacks, but in this case the callback does not
> > take any parameters.
>
> Use the `static' modifier when declaring the delegate, this prevents the
> generation of the user_data / target_object parameter.


Thanks, that worked perfectly!

I thought I'd tried all combinations of the static keyword, but I
guess I missed that one.  While it does make sense that "static" would
work here, what do you think of the idea that delegates described
outside a class should not have the context argument?

Steve