[pygtk] Registering GTK-Widgets

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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Hi,

today I had a look at my application using the "Parasite" debugger [1].
And there I noticed, that widgets I created on Python-level showed up
with the last C-Class involved. I.e. for an inheritance graph like: ...
- --> GtkTreeView --> LazyView --> SomeOtherView, where GtkTreeView is the
last one on C-Level, the SomeOtherView-widgets showed up as "GtkTreeView".

So I looked for a way to deal with this, and found the
gobject.type_register function. Using this, it worked fine :) (Even if
only a look at the sourcecode revealed that one can actually pass a name
instead of autogenerating one.)

My question now is: Is this the intended way of registering widgets? And
are there any side-effects? (Oh - and are there perhaps any other nice
benefits, instead of showing the correct name in a debugger, which is
more or less a cosmetic change?)

Regards,
René

[1] http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite
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