On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 18:47 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 18:36 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming: > > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > > > AFAIR, you can flip it of you create a GtkBox/GtkScale, but not if you > > > create a Gtk[HV]{Box,Scale}... Mitch? > > > > Ah. Were those base classes (GtkBox, etc) instantiable before? > > > > If the base classes can now already do everything then shouldn't the V/H > > classes be deprecated already?
A deprecation doesn't force people to change anything. It's not (yet) a removal of the API, though I guess that is planned for the future. It is a useful hint and it explains the apparent duplication. > Oh, I hear you volunteer to update the gazillions lines of code in the > wild refering those classes? ;-) > > I am pretty sure API users would rather switch to Qt, than to follow > this deprecation. > > Well, actually those V/H classes even serve a purpose: When using them > in a derived widget you can be sure, that nobody will be that evil to > suddenly change the orientation of your derived widget. Apparently that's not true though. -- Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list