Mr. Picklesworth
November 22nd, 2008, 02:51 AM
First of all, this is completely unnecessary and I have already solved the problem with the obvious alternatives, but I am curious to know if this is possible so I can shave a few lines of code.
So I have a class that manages an editor's GUI. There are a bunch of callback functions that I prefer to keep hidden, so one neat way to do that would be to tuck them away inside a single object, for example with a nested class. The trouble with a nested class is that all my functions in there are in a different scope; they don't see my instance of the parent. I could pass the nested class instace its parent, but that doesn't look very nice.
So any other way to do this? I want to define my callback functions, preferably inside one specific thing. This way I won't need a whole other dictionary that links to them when I run gtk.Builder.connect(), thus saving a fair bit of space and making the code look pretty.
So I have a class that manages an editor's GUI. There are a bunch of callback functions that I prefer to keep hidden, so one neat way to do that would be to tuck them away inside a single object, for example with a nested class. The trouble with a nested class is that all my functions in there are in a different scope; they don't see my instance of the parent. I could pass the nested class instace its parent, but that doesn't look very nice.
So any other way to do this? I want to define my callback functions, preferably inside one specific thing. This way I won't need a whole other dictionary that links to them when I run gtk.Builder.connect(), thus saving a fair bit of space and making the code look pretty.