On 6/7/07, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:17:42PM -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote: > > > > So, just to check if I understand it right. What you're saying is that > > the best approach would be to have something like (in my file buffer > > case) a FileBuffer class which I could do something like: > > > > g_object_new(X_TYPE_FILE_BUFFER, /*any properties here*/ NULL); > > > > and only then load the resource as in something like > > > > x_file_buffer_load_from_file(file_name, &error); > > > > ... is that kind of thing you were saying or am I missing something ? > > You can do it this way, but you can do it a way more > resembling your original description too. I don't know what > your intended error reporting interface for other I/O errors > looks like, but if it can be querried after the fact, i.e. > it maintains something like errno, then > > buf = g_object_new(X_TYPE_FILE_BUFFER, "filename", "foo.txt", NULL); > if (!buf) { > ... > } > > can be done completely equivalently > > buf = g_object_new(X_TYPE_FILE_BUFFER, "filename", "foo.txt", NULL); > if (x_file_buffer_error(buf)) { > ... > g_object_unref(buf); > } > > If not, the x_file_buffer_load_from_file() approach with > immediate error reporting makes more sense. > Thanks, I'll keep both ideas in mind. Although for this case the GError based one will make more sense. Thanks again, Alexandre Moreira. > Yeti > > -- > http://gwyddion.net/ > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list