On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:54 PM, <cecashon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > A widget has encapsulated functionality that the designer of the widget does > not expect you to use or see in your application code. Changing a "private" > widget may have negative consequences for how the widget works. If a widget > doesn't have the functionality that you need then file a feature request in > bugzilla so that it can be implemented. Or, create your own widget. > > Is it illegal? No, and I would say it is something, as a developer, it is > good to look at. You would want to look at the code of how the widget you > are changing works to see if it is OK to do so. The font selection widget is > deprecated so I don't think anymore changes are going to be made to it. A > widget developer can change the private structure at any time which could > break code that depends on a certain structure. Your code would be at risk > of not working even across minor version changes in GTK. You are probably > fairly safe that this widgets internal structure isn't going to change > though. That isn't true for a lot of widgets. OK, understood. > > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
