Adding properties to BoxedType

[kornelski]

glib::subclass shows how to create either an Object with properties, or a BoxedType with no properties.

But is it possible to have BoxedType and have properties on it?

https://gtk-rs.org/docs/glib/subclass/index.html

[sdroege]

GObject properties only work for GObjects and not boxed types. Boxed types are only a way to teach GObject (the library, not the type) about "external" types together with the corresponding memory management functions (copy/ref and free/unref).

On your external type you can have whatever API you want, but as it's not a GObject so can't have GObject properties.

Does that answer your question? Do you see some possible improvement in the docs to make this clearer?

[kornelski]

That helps, thanks