From: leon breedt <bitserf@...>
Date: 2004-11-23T05:48:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Blocks, serailizing, and "configure, don't integrate"

Hi Hugh,

I don't see much benefit to be gained from serializing the callback
procs themselves. I would rather go for the approach where you
serialize an identifier associated with the callback.

A good example of what I'm getting at is Glade. Its a UI description
format (XML) for Gtk/Gnome. When you load in the Glade file, you get
back a container that holds all the Gtk UI object instances. The Glade
file only stores the callback name (they call it signals); in your
code you then dispatch to the appropriate method based on that name.

The Ruby Glade bindings can be found together with the Ruby Gnome2 bindings:

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/