On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 19:20 +0200, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:48:25PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > > > Since we do not see a way around this (yet) and we could not find an > > > > example with strings in another project. I'm asking here if there is a > > > > nice way around this. > > > > > > i'm really not sure i understand your problem here... > > > > We need a way to steal the string from the property i.e. to make sure > > its not a copy of the original. > > The property does not need to be actually backed by > a string. It just has to accept a string in the setter and > produce a string -- a new string -- in the getter. For > instance GtkCellRendererText has properties "background" > wich is a string (write-only though) and "background-gdk" > which is a GdkColor. They are views of same thing and > what is this actual internal representation is none of your > business. > > To sum it up, you cannot steal something that is owned by > you from the begining.
Properties "generating" things are a complete different story. We have to treat them separately. Properties transferring ownership will need to be specially marked in Vala. Raffaele _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list