Re: [Vala] About composite templates and its constructors

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On 06/08/2015 16:01, Andres Fernandez wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I've been playing for a while with composite templates on
> vala, and made a lot of progress to reach what I expected of
> my work on it. It's just great!
>
> Well, anyway, I had a problem and didn't get any clue on the
> web. I have two composite templates there is a MyWindow
> class and a MyTreeView class. the .ui file of MyWindow
> template has an object of MyTreeView class. At this point
> everything works great.
>
> But, MyTreeView class assign it a model of mine on its
> constructor function. But, as MyTreeView is get as a
> [GtkChild], in MyWindow composite template class, its
> constructor function never runs, so that MyTreeView object
> has no model assigned. I can assign one to it on MyWindow
> class, but I wanted to avoid that.
>
> Is there any way to execute the constructor code of a
> composite template that is a [GtkChild] of another composite
> template class?
>
> Thanks in advance!
Try writing constructors with construct { }, which is the gobject
construction.