Re: [Vala] [Genie] Object members

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 01:50 +1100, Patrick Castle wrote:
> Thanks for that. I looked back at the Genie page and did a bit of Googling. I think I understand the 
> distinction between field and property. It would seem from a good practice point of view that fields would 
> generally be private and properties would generally be public. Would that be a reasonable way to explain 
> it? If so - I understand where I would want to use one or the other.

no

You would use a property mainly for design time setting as they can be
introspected (EG think glade and setting properties on a widget when
designing) or if you needed explicit getter/setter methods or the
ability to override them. 

Fields by comparison are for runtime usage only and cannot be
introspected nor can they have get/set methods or be readonly or
virtual/overridable etc


jamie