[Gtk-sharp-list] Gdk.Color, further comments.

[Jonathan Pryor]

Shouldn't we be aiming for conformity/consistency with the rest of the
API?  This would dictate a return value of Gdk.Color and throwing an
exception on error:

	public static Gdk.Color Parse (string s)
	{
		GdkColor ret_color;
		int raw_ret = gdk_color_parse(spec, out ret_color);
		if (raw_ret == 0)
			// Adjust type as necessary...
			throw new Exception ("Invalid color");
		return ret_color;
	}

However, this would probably need to be done through a Color.custom file
instead of through the API generator.

 - Jon

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 17:39, Lee Mallabone wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 20:51, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> >    Further comments on Gdk.Color.  I do not feel strongly about some of
> > these, but I would like to have a discussion on them:
> >
> > 	* Gdk.Color.Parse returns an int indicating whether it succeeded
> > 	  or not.  Can we map the return value to bool?
> 
> How about having a void return type and throwing an exception if the parse failed?
> I'm not sure if that's any easier to do than returning a bool, but it seems like a better use of the c# language features than having to check the return value.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lee.
> 
> 
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