[Glade-devel] [glade-3] pixmap properties

[Damon Chaplin]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:39, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> --- Damon Chaplin <damon@karuna.uklinux.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm about to try to add support for pixmap
> > properties to glade-3.
> > 
> > We need to keep the filename stored somewhere. Where
> > should it go?
> > I suppose since GdkPixbuf is a GObject we could use
> > g_object_set_data().
> > 
> > But we may also need additional data with other
> > property types at some
> > point (e.g. a translatable flag and translator
> > comments for strings).
> > So I thought maybe there should be a standard way of
> > storing extra data
> > for a property besides its GValue.
> 
> The g_object_set_data approach seems good enough to
> me. These uses seems to be rare enough to need
> anything else.

But how is this going to work with the stuff like Undo/Redo that only
works with GValues?

I think we may need our own GladeValue wrapper that has a GValue and
extra data like pixmap filename/translatable flag/translator comments.
We'd then need to update all the code that works on GValues to expect
GladeValues instead.

Is there any better solution?

Damon