> I guess I haven't quite wrapped my head around properties, > but am I right in assuming that their main advantages (as > opposed to, say, ordinary class members) are: > > 1) they are installable at runtime > > 2) they can emit signals when changed These are true, though I don't think 1) is that useful. More importantly, they 3) are introspectable, so a RAD tool (such as Glade) can find out what properties an object has, without special code for each widget. 4) don't mess with ABI. You can add a property without worrying about changing the size of the struct. The new private instance data thing in glib 2.3 also does this, howeer. Murray Cumming www.murrayc.com murrayc@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
