Re: Glib::Property

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:09 +0200, Germán Diago wrote:
> 2008/8/13 Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:
> > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:49 +0400, Larik Ishkulov wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 20:02:18 Germán Diago wrote:
> >> > Hi all. I've got some questions I'd like to be answered:
> >> >
> >> >  When implementing new
> >> > widgets in gtkmm, is there any advantage in using Glib::Property and
> >> > Glib::PropertyProxy
> >> > instead of using normal members and get and set? Or it's used for a
> >> > different thing?
> >> >
> >> > Which is the correct way to use Glib::Property and PropertyProxy?
> >> > Because in the documentation,
> >> > there are constructors with Glib::Object listed, but Glib::Object
> >> > constructor is protected.
> >> > Thank you
> >> > very much for your time.
> >>
> >> Using Glib::Property will register a property in GObject. So other C programs
> >> can use your property.
> >
> > So, no, I don't think it's very useful.
> 
> If I use properties in my widgets, can I edit them through glade if I
> integrate widgets? Thanks in advance.

Yes, I think so, though I wonder how well that works for C++ types.

It would be nice to have an example of that in our documentation. If
someone could put a small example of gtkmm Glade integration in
bugzilla, that would be great.

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