GTK+ By Example/Glib/GObject

See the GObject Developer Docs. See creating a Gobject for an example on deriving objects. GObject is implemented in Glib and builds Objects in run-time (unlike C++ and many other object oriented languages which do this at compile tim). similar to C++, using vtables. explicit upcasting and downcasting. Capable of meeting the three tenets of OOP. (See The Wikipedia Article). Example create a person that says "hi my name is xxx". when person::talk is implemented create an example dr_phil that inherits from person and says "And hows that working for you?" when person::talk is called. this should provide us with deriving a first object, which is a pain to learn. and how inheritance works in Glib. What needs to be explained type check and type cast macros the purpose of get type the order in which objects are instantiated creating object construct and desctructor methods the difference between class and instance virtual functions