[Gtk-sharp-list] Proposal: Default constructors for widgets

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

I'm for it.

(I await your Patch :-)  )


See ya


On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:59, fd wrote:
> One of the most remarkable things about System.Windows.Forms is that
> most widgets have default constructors (ie. no parameters).
> 
> This probably helps cut down the learning curve of the toolkit. For
> example, in situations when you know you need a VBox, but don't care
> about making it homogeneous or giving it a default spacing, you could
> just do VBox vb = new VBox (). It tends to be possible to adjusted these
> options later using properties, anyway.
> 
> I propose to add overloaded default constructors for widgets where the
> constructor parameters can also be modified by properties, or where
> non-default values are rarely used. The original constructors would
> remain for compatibility with the Gtk+ API.
> 
> This will also help simplify the work needed to make a VS.NET-style
> forms editor for Gtk# (something that's now being worked on).
> 
> Comments?
> 
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     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, BSc
     charles@reptile.ca

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