On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:58:49PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: >On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Jono Bacon wrote: >> >> Something I find really frustrating with PyGTK is that when I look at >> the docs for, as an example, the Button class, it does not show all >> of the methods that have been inherited from the base classes. > >But it does include the inheritance tree, which means it should be easy >enough to browse the parent classes to find out if required >functionality is there... > >> Is there any chance of this feature making it into the documentation? >> It would be *really* useful. :) > >IMHO it would clutter the documentation for inherited classes too much, >nearly all of the time, especially as just about any widget ultimately >inherits from gtk.Widget which has a rather large number of methods to >begin with. > >I guess it /could/ show a simple list of inherited methods and not the >full documentation for all of these (perhaps you meant this to begin >with?), but then again, even such list would usually be fairly long seeing >the gtk.Widget inheritance.
Yes, full documentation of all inherited methods in each class would clutter, but a simple list of all methods is all that's needed (since most methods have good names). I think Qt has done a good job in this respect. E.g. http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qcheckbox.html /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. I have not had the time to search the patent literature systematically; indeed, I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. If somebody sends me a copy of a relevant patent not presently cited in this book, I will dutifully refer to it in future editions. However, I want to encourage people to continue the centuries-old mathematical tradition of putting newly discovered algorithms into the public domain. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. -- Donald E. Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming. Volume III. 2nd Edition. Preface. p vi.
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