[pygtk] New constructor style in PyGTK 2.8

[Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro]

On Qui, 2006-03-23 at 15:30 +0100, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm converting my defs file to use the new constructor style in pygtk 
> 2.8, I have read
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/WhatsNew28#update-constructors
> 
> and have run into some questons:
> 
> 1. Is ok to leave out the "new-constructor foo_bar_type" fields in the 
> override file ? It seems to work fine anyway.

  If you omit "new-constructor foo_bar_type" you'll get into trouble
when trying to do use constructor properties, like gobject.new(FooBar,
prop_foo=123).  You really shouldn't omit it.

> 
> 2. In the defs file I've simply put:
> ...
>  (properties
>   ("arg1" "arg1")
>   ("arg2" "arg2")
>  )
> 
>    and this also seems to work. Are there any special reasons for using 
> (argname="xxx") like the website explains ?

  I'm not sure what ("arg1" "arg1") does, probably the second "arg1" is
simply ignored.  In any case, (argname="xxx") is optional.  We needed
that in pygtk itself in order to preserve API compatibility.  If you
don't need to preserve API, or if the property name is the same as the
parameter name, you can leave it out.

> 
> --Jacob
> 
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