On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:04 +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:03:14 +0100 > Tomas Carnecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am I limited with C? > > No, there are very few features in C++ that are hard/impossible to > > imitate in C, but you usually won't need those for small projects. > > In fact the GObject library (on which GTK is based) is an example of how full > object-orientation can be achieved in C. Of course other C++ features like > templates, operator overloading (ugh!) and namespaces are unique. > > If you want to use C++ with GTK you can do so through gtkmm which, if I'm not > mistaken, is essentially a wrapper around the assorted C libraries. So you > end up with two redundant layers of object-orientation on top of each other > which doesn't hurt a bit but which I find conceptually so abhorrent that, if > I'd want to write C++ GUI apps, I'd use Qt.
The GObject system can be made to interface reasonable easily with C++ lifetime management by using some minimal wrapper classes - in particular it is very straightforward to interface C++ smart pointers with GOBject reference counting. There are some utility classes at http://efax-gtk.cvs.sourceforge.net/efax-gtk/efax-gtk/src/utils/ which are quite handy if you want to program GTK+ in C++ without additional language bindings. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
