DBusGProxy as parent gobject

[Gary Kramlich]

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Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 10:08 +0200, Ricardo Kekki wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>I'm trying to use DBusGProxy as a parent gobject for my own gobject.
>>This doesn't work because the definition of "struct _DBusGProxy" is
>>hidden in the dbus-gproxy.c file.
>>
>>Is there a reason that the DBusGProxy is not wanted to be inherited?
> 
> 
> APIs are normally designed the other way around, things are only public
> if there's a reason for them to be ;-)
> 
> Can you tell us about what you're doing and why you want to derive from
> DBusGProxy?
> 
> Havoc

For what it's worth, you can man a GObject derivable without exposing
any of it's members by adding a "Private" member to the public struct
and only define that structure in the source file, and not the header as
well.  Basically, how it's defined now, but instead of the whole
structure being defined in the C file, only the private structure would
be defined in the C file.

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Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
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